Darlene Kelly, LCSW
Louisiana · 24 years in practice
Darlene Kelly is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 24 years of experience who centers her work on Jungian ideas alongside practical talk 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
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 with 24 years of experience who centers her work on Jungian ideas alongside practical talk therapy. She welcomes people who are facing anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, addiction, or life transitions. Her approach aims to help clients name what they are feeling and find ways to move forward.
She listens without judgment and encourages honest expression. Sessions focus on understanding present difficulties and the patterns that keep them going.
Background and approach
Darlene uses Jungian Therapy to attend to personal meaning and inner images while also drawing on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and cognitive tools to manage symptoms. Darlene has long worked with concerns such as parenting stress, career issues, compassion fatigue, and LGBTQ matters. She also addresses trauma, attachment struggles, eating and sleeping difficulties, and problems with self-esteem.
Her practice includes attention to complex situations like chronic illness, grief, abandonment, and blended family dynamics. She describes therapy as a place to speak openly about past hurts and current choices without trying to erase history. The work often blends reflection on inner experience with concrete strategies for coping and change.
Clients can expect a balance of listening, exploration, and practical skills. Darlene’s style aims to help people grow step by step. She supports clients in identifying values, handling stress, and developing healthier patterns in relationships and daily 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
- Jungian Therapy
- 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
- 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
Darlene uses Jungian Therapy to help people notice inner images, dreams, and recurring themes that shape how they feel and behave. That approach can help when someone wants deeper understanding of life patterns. She also brings Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions aligned with personal values to reduce suffering from anxiety or low mood.Finding the right approach is a joint process. Darlene will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels helpful. Together they decide whether to emphasize reflection and meaning, or practical skills and behavioral changes, and then adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging suits quick check-ins or steady support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent despite busy schedules or travel.
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Questions people ask
What issues does this therapist help with?
Darlene works with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, addiction, and stress. She also addresses parenting strain, career challenges, ADHD, and body image or eating and sleeping problems.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style blends Jungian Therapy with client-centered listening and practical techniques from ACT and CBT. Sessions typically mix reflective exploration of meaning with skills to manage symptoms.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 24 years of experience as a licensed social worker working in a variety of settings. That background includes supporting people through long-term issues and sudden life changes.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with credentials listed as TX LCSW and MS LCSW, and she practices from Louisiana.
Can sessions be conducted in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
Are online or remote session formats available?
Therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are costs and billing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin working together?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.
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