About Darlene
Darlene Kelly is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 24 years of experience. She focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, relationship issues, and major life changes. Darlene emphasizes a listening style that lets people speak freely and feel heard.
She uses practical, down-to-earth conversation to help clients name what matters and find steps forward. Sessions focus on real problems like sleep and eating difficulties, addiction concerns, and struggles with self-esteem or anger.
How Darlene works
She also supports people facing trauma, compassion fatigue, bipolar disorder, and ADHD-related challenges. Darlene blends approaches so each session fits the person in front of her. Techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) help with coping skills and emotional regulation.
Attachment-based ideas and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) guide work on values, relationships, and long-standing patterns. Her background includes many years helping people cope with caregiver stress, chronic illness, adoption and foster care questions, and issues of abandonment or commitment. She also addresses career stress, intimacy-related concerns, body image, and co-morbidity of conditions.
Darlene places priority on clear goals and steady progress. She invites honest talk about what’s hardest and helps clients build manageable strategies. The approach is collaborative and paced to each person’s readiness to change.
Darlene lists 19 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
What Darlene works with
The areas below are the ones Darlene selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 24 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Louisiana |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Evidence-Informed Approaches for Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take meaningful steps toward those values, even when difficult thoughts or feelings show up. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. This approach is often used for stress, sleep and eating problems, and mood concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete tools for regulating intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving interpersonal effectiveness. It can help with anger, relationship challenges, and impulse-related issues.Darlene treats choice of approach as a shared process. She will listen to your situation, goals, and preferences, then suggest which methods to try first. Together you can adjust strategies over time so the work fits your needs and moves at a comfortable pace.
Online therapy provides flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper dialogue, phone sessions make check-ins easier when video is not possible, and live chat or text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, journaling between sessions, or people who prefer typed communication. These options help fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while maintaining continuity of care.
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