About Darlene
Darlene Kelly is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 24 years of experience. She focuses on helping people navigate trauma, relationship concerns, mood challenges, and stress through a somatic-informed, practical approach. Darlene listens without judgment and creates space for people to say what they need to say.
Sessions are meant to help people notice how their body and emotions connect, then find small, usable steps to change what isn’t working.
Background and approach
She believes therapy should help people move forward rather than erase the past. Her work covers a wide range of concerns. These include anxiety, depression, bipolar mood issues, addictions, grief, intimacy-related troubles, self-esteem, and parenting strains.
She also supports those facing career shifts, chronic illness or pain, caregiving stress, and adoption or abandonment questions. Darlene blends sensory, body-aware techniques with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She also uses attachment-based and client-centered methods to help people understand patterns and build healthier connections.
The goal is practical: reduce distress, improve coping, and strengthen real-life relationships. She offers sessions in English and works with both local and international clients. People can start with a short matching questionnaire and schedule a format that fits their life, including video, phone, chat, or messaging options.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to bodily sensations and how they connect to feelings. Online sessions can include gentle tracking of breath, posture, and sensations to help people understand stress responses and find ways to calm or shift them. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck and choosing actions that match personal values. It helps with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by teaching practical tools for living a meaningful life despite difficult emotions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide whether somatic practices, ACT, CBT, or a mix is the best fit. Goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs shape the plan rather than a one-size-fits-all method.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, continue work during transitions, or check in between sessions. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and conversations to each format so people can build coping skills and progress from wherever they are.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- 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
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
- 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
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi
- Languages
- English