About Darlene
Darlene Mayers offers a warm, practical approach to therapy rooted in client-centered care. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who brings 26 years of experience in the mental health field.
Background and approach
She helps people break down problems into clear steps they can take right away. Darlene focuses on issues such as stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma and grief.
She also supports people facing relationship strain, intimacy concerns, parenting stress, career transitions, and compassion fatigue. She works with mood and personality-related challenges as well as ADHD and bipolar mood concerns.
Her style is respectful and interactive. Sessions are straightforward and goal-minded, with room for compassion and practical skills.
She combines talk, problem solving, and skill-building to create a plan that fits each person's life. Darlene trained in psychology at Palm Beach Atlantic University and earned a master of science degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Nova Southeastern University.
She has worked in a variety of clinical settings over more than two decades, helping people manage addiction, trauma, and chronic emotional struggles. In therapy she uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and client-centered work.
That mix lets her tailor sessions to symptoms, personal goals, and everyday demands. She offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, and text messaging to fit different schedules.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters to the person. It helps people feel heard and clarifies what they want to change. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into patterns of thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change them. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and daily life. That means trying tools, reviewing what helps, and adjusting the plan as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video is useful for a full conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a hands-free conversation is needed. Live chat or text messaging can be helpful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when writing ideas feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to schedule consistent care around work, caregiving, or travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English