About Darlene
Darlene Amin is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 13 years of experience offering practical, down-to-earth care. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and addiction. She works in Florida and conducts sessions in English.
Her style puts the person in the center of the work. She listens closely and helps clients notice how thoughts, body sensations, and actions connect. She draws on somatic ideas to include the body in sessions and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy skills are also used to help people live by their values while tolerating difficult feelings. Many clients come with sleep problems, low self-esteem, relationship or intimacy concerns, or struggles with substance use. She also supports people facing chronic illness, grief, or life changes such as career shifts and questions about life purpose.
People dealing with ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, or co-occurring conditions are also among her focus areas. Darlene emphasizes practical steps and clear goals. Sessions can include grounding exercises, behavioral experiments, and communication skills practice.
She aims to keep work straightforward so people can use new tools between meetings. She holds the Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential, listed as FL LMHC MH11773. Her background includes many years helping people translate insight into day-to-day changes.
Sessions are available via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging under a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Approaches that fit online work and the body
Somatic-informed work encourages noticing body sensations and simple grounding practices to help when stress or trauma feel overwhelming. This approach can make it easier to calm the nervous system and re-engage with daily tasks.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed actions toward them. It helps people tolerate hard emotions while still moving toward meaningful goals.
Attachment-Based methods look at how early relationships shape current patterns. In sessions this can mean looking at how people connect, set boundaries, and ask for what they need.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your situation, try out techniques together, and adjust based on what feels most helpful. Over time the plan can shift to match goals and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy lives or mobility limits. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions fit tight schedules, and live chat or text messaging can support ongoing coaching and check-ins between appointments. These options make it easier to practice tools in real life and keep therapy consistent.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English