Darlene Kelly, LCSW
Louisiana · 24 years in practice
Darlene Kelly is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy as a central approach in her work.
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
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Darlene
Darlene Kelly is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy as a central approach in her work. She draws on 24 years of experience to help people facing stress, anxiety, grief, relationship struggles, and major life changes. She aims to create a calm space where clients can talk and be heard without judgment.
Darlene listens closely and helps people name what they are feeling. She encourages honest, manageable steps rather than quick fixes.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on understanding emotions and how they shape everyday choices and relationships. Her background includes long-term clinical practice and a broad range of focus areas such as trauma and abuse, addiction, bipolar disorder, depression, ADHD, and intimacy-related concerns. She also supports people dealing with caregiving strain, chronic illness, body image, and career transitions.
Darlene combines Emotionally-Focused Therapy with approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy when that fits a person's needs. She keeps conversations practical and conversational, helping clients try new ways of coping between sessions. People who reach out can expect a steady, patient presence and an emphasis on building skills that matter day to day.
The work is collaborative - she helps clients set goals and track small changes toward a more manageable life.
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
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- 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
Emotion-focused work adapted for online care
Darlene draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people identify and shift the patterns that keep them stuck, such as repeated fights or withdrawal in relationships. EFT focuses on feelings and how people react to them, which can help with anxiety, intimacy concerns, and many forms of grief or loss.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and commit to values-based action. ACT can be useful for stress, addiction-related struggles, and adjusting to life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy is another part of her approach and focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current trust and closeness in relationships.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and will adapt methods over time. Together they decide which tools to try and check in on progress regularly.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow deeper conversation with face-to-face interaction, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat can be used for quick check-ins or brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep work going even when life is unpredictable.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does this therapist address?
Darlene works with a wide range of issues including anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, stress, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and parenting challenges.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside client-centered listening and practical techniques from CBT and ACT to help people name feelings and try small, doable changes.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She brings 24 years of professional experience working in clinical settings with adults across many life stages and circumstances.
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 international clients are accepted.
What session formats are offered?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How are costs handled for sessions?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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