Darlene Kelly, LCSW
Licensed in Louisiana · 24 years in practice
Darlene Kelly brings a compassionate, person-focused style to therapy.
License and registration
- LCSW, Louisiana
- 4730 · expires August 2026
- LCSW, Texas
- 57472 · expires April 2028
- LCSW, Mississippi
- C10272 · expires April 2028
- NPI
- 1568627297 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 24
- Languages
- English
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About Darlene
Darlene Kelly brings a compassionate, person-focused style to therapy. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 24 years of experience and listens without judgment. Her approach centers on helping people name what they’re facing and find practical ways to move forward.
Darlene uses methods drawn from acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. She focuses on thoughts and actions you can try between sessions.
Background and approach
That makes therapy feel more like problem solving and less like a lecture. She helps people dealing with anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, trauma, addiction, and relationship struggles. She also supports those facing parenting pressures, career shifts, grief, caregiving stress, and issues with sleep or eating.
Additional areas she addresses include ADHD, body image, abandonment, and aging-related concerns. Sessions are aimed at making steady, realistic progress. Darlene encourages honest conversation about struggles and goals, and she works with each person to build useful coping skills.
People who want a collaborative, steady presence often find this approach helpful. Her Louisiana practice includes phone, video, live chat, and text-based messaging sessions, and she accepts clients from outside the U.S. The focus is on practical steps, clearer patterns, and new choices for handling life’s challenges.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Darlene lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- 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 names
- 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
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How Darlene’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that align with them. It helps when worry or avoidance gets in the way of everyday life. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build more supported ways of relating. It can be useful for intimacy challenges and recurring relationship struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) identifies unhelpful thoughts and tests them with practical experiments to change mood and behavior.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Darlene will work with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences, and current struggles. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust the plan if something isn’t working.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging fit short check-ins, scheduling constraints, or times when writing feels more comfortable. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and continue care from different locations.
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Questions people ask
What issues does Darlene commonly address?
She supports people with anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting strain, and caregiving stress among other concerns.
What is her general therapy style?
Her style is person-centered and collaborative, combining acceptance and action-oriented tools and practical skills so clients can try changes between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
She has 24 years of professional experience working with a wide range of emotional and life challenges.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds the LCSW credential and practices from Louisiana.
Which languages are used in sessions and can international clients join?
Sessions are conducted in English and she accepts clients from outside the United States.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are delivered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Tap the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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