About Darlene
Dr. Darlene Viggiano helps people facing relationship strain, trauma, grief, addiction, anxiety, depression, and parenting stress. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist and brings 18 years of clinical experience to her work.
Her tone is straightforward and calm in sessions. She works with practical problems like sleeping, anger, and career transitions as well as complex issues such as bipolar symptoms and post-traumatic stress. She takes a focused, relational approach.
How Darlene works
Conversations look at how attachment, communication, and past family patterns shape current problems. She uses clear tools from cognitive-behavioral methods alongside emotion-focused and existential conversations to help people identify patterns and make different choices. Dr.
Viggiano trained in psychology and holds a PhD in Psychology. Her background includes roles as an intensive outpatient clinician, case manager, and clinical lead supervisor. She has taught paraprofessionals and students and has led workshops on Jungian and transpersonal topics.
Her work has included addressing domestic violence, addiction, infidelity, and family-of-origin concerns. She has also facilitated programs for anger management, couples communication, and issues tied to perinatal substance use. She has written on dreaming and on grief after pregnancy loss.
Clients can expect a therapist who names patterns plainly and offers concrete options for change. Sessions mix listening, focused questions, and exercises to practice between meetings. The goal is clearer communication, more stable moods, and better coping with life changes.
Darlene lists 15 ways of working on the entry:
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online healing
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how close relationships shape feelings and behavior. It helps people understand patterns of connection and distance and is useful for intimacy issues and relationship stress. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and pace, giving space for people to be heard and for insight to emerge. This approach supports self-esteem, life purpose questions, and coping with changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and needs. That may mean mixing attachment ideas with practical cognitive techniques or spending time on emotional processing first and skill-building later.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work in a face-to-face way when schedules or distance make in-person meetings hard. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, and people who prefer writing. Together these options make therapy more flexible and easier to use alongside daily life.
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