Darlene Kelly, LCSW

Therapist in Louisiana

Darlene Kelly is a licensed clinical social worker with 24 years of experience.

Licensed inLouisiana, Texas, Mississippi
License4730, 57472, C10272
NPI 1568627297
Experience24+ years
LanguagesEnglish

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About Darlene

Darlene Kelly is a licensed clinical social worker with 24 years of experience. She centers her work on Attachment-based ideas and helps people who are facing relationship, mood, and life-stress concerns. She listens without judgment and offers steady support while clients figure out next steps.

Her style is warm and direct. Sessions focus on building safer connections, naming patterns that cause pain, and practicing new ways of relating. She uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to manage anxiety, depression, and stress.

Background and approach

Dialectical behavior therapy skills are introduced when stronger emotion regulation is needed. Darlene brings long experience with trauma and loss. She assists those dealing with grief, abuse, addictions, and compassion fatigue.

She also helps people with identity questions, body image, sleeping and eating concerns, and challenges tied to ADHD or bipolar mood patterns. She supports people facing life transitions - career changes, caregiving stress, aging concerns, or adoption and foster care issues. Parenting concerns and intimacy-related struggles are addressed with practical steps and communication practice.

She pays attention to abandonment and attachment issues that often underlie repeated patterns. Sessions are offered in English and are available to international clients. Darlene provides therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.

Her goal is to help people feel more understood and to build skills they can use outside sessions.

Credentials

LCSW (Louisiana): License 4730 · expires August 2026
LCSW (Texas): License 57472 · expires April 2028
LCSW (Mississippi): License C10272 · expires April 2028
NPI: 1568627297 · national provider identifier

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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

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Online support

Attachment and skills-based care for online therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early connection patterns shape current relationships. It helps people notice how they respond to closeness and practice more supported ways of relating. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, teaches people to accept uncomfortable thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match their values; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replace them with more constructive habits, which supports mood, sleep, and stress problems.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Darlene will discuss options and collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and day-to-day life. Together they set clear priorities and try techniques in session so people can use them between meetings.

Online therapy here is offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and deeper skills practice. Phone calls can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging let people check in, do brief coaching, or continue the work between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules and large life changes.

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Frequently asked

What concerns does she help with?

Darlene helps people with anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, stress, grief, and a range of life challenges including parenting and career transitions.

What is her therapeutic style like?

She combines Attachment-based perspectives with client-centered listening and practical techniques from CBT, ACT, and DBT to build safer connections and reduce distress.

How much experience does she have?

She has 24 years of clinical experience supporting people through mood, trauma, and relationship concerns.

Where is she licensed and located?

She is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Louisiana with credentials listed as TX LCSW and MS LCSW.

Which languages are available for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.

What session formats are offered?

Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.

How do costs and billing work?

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