About Darlene
Darlene Mayers uses a client-centered approach to help people find clear, manageable steps through hard moments. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Florida with 26 years of experience. Darlene speaks plain language and focuses on practical change rather than jargon.
She helps people who struggle with stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, grief, and trauma. She also works with those facing relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, career pressures, and burnout like compassion fatigue.
How Darlene works
Her practice includes attention to ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and self-esteem issues. Darlene blends client-centered care with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques to help clients change unhelpful thoughts and build coping skills. She also uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing to support motivation and calm.
Sessions aim to be interactive and goal-focused. Her experience includes work with personality and attachment issues, adoption and foster care matters, chronic illness and pain, caregiver stress, and body image concerns. She is familiar with complex situations where multiple problems interact and uses practical strategies to address them.
Darlene trained at Palm Beach Atlantic University for a B.S. in psychology and earned a M.S. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Nova Southeastern University. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
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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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 26 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's own goals and strengths. The therapist listens closely, reflects what’s said, and helps the person decide practical next steps. This approach is useful when someone needs empathy and a clear plan to move forward.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Sessions include simple exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. It includes short skills practice to reduce crises and build steady coping. DBT techniques help with emotion regulation, anger, and interpersonal difficulties.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will try methods that fit the person’s needs and adjust the plan over time.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations for deeper interaction. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to send brief updates, ask questions between sessions, and fit care into busy days. These options help make therapy more flexible and easier to maintain alongside work, school, and caregiving.
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