Works with
- Anger
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
How Darlene works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi
- Years in practice
- 24
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Darlene
Darlene Kelly is a licensed clinical social worker with 24 years of experience. She uses clear, practical methods to help people manage strong emotions and handle life changes. She listens without judgment and focuses on what matters to each person.
Darlene draws on several approaches to shape sessions around each person's needs. She blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try small, doable changes.
Background and approach
She also uses Attachment-Based and Client-Centered ideas to create a steady, understanding space to talk about relationships and past hurts. Clients come with a wide range of concerns, including anger, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, and challenges with intimacy or self-esteem. She also supports people facing career shifts, caregiving stress, and chronic illness.
Sessions often include practical coping skills, breathing and grounding techniques, and steps to test new behaviors between meetings. Darlene pays attention to how relationships shape feelings. She helps people notice patterns that come from early attachment and find new ways to relate.
For those dealing with parenting stress or blended family issues she offers concrete strategies for setting boundaries and managing conflict. She works in English and accepts international clients. People access her through online formats that fit busy lives.
To start, visitors complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time based on therapist availability.
What Darlene works with
Everything Darlene lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Darlene's practice.
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Darlene lists
- 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
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Darlene often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice hard thoughts and still move toward what matters. ACT focuses on values and small actions that build a more meaningful daily routine. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to break down unhelpful thinking and practice different responses to stress and anger.Choosing the right approach is a shared step. The therapist and client will talk about goals, try methods, and adjust the plan together so sessions match personal needs and preferences. That collaborative process guides whether more skills-based work or deeper attachment-focused conversation is best.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and different life demands. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversations, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for short check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing coaching-style prompts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving routines, or travel commitments.
Questions people ask about Darlene
What concerns does this therapist address?
Darlene helps with a broad range of issues including anger, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, intimacy-related problems, self-esteem, and stress.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She combines practical techniques with listening and support, using approaches that help people notice patterns and try small changes in daily life.
How much experience does she have?
She has 24 years of clinical experience working with people across many life stages and concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds the LCSW credential and practices from Louisiana as a licensed clinical social worker.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are offered?
Sessions can be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin therapy with this clinician?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.