About Darlene
Darlene Goines is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on practical help for everyday struggles. She uses straightforward, person-focused support to help people manage stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, and issues connected to self-esteem and grief. She has 18 years of experience working with adults on life changes, caregiver strain, workplace stress, and compassion fatigue.
Darlene also addresses intimacy and anger problems, communication barriers, and challenges linked to ADHD.
Background and approach
Her style is calm and direct, with an emphasis on finding small, realistic steps forward. In sessions she listens closely and centers the conversation on each person’s goals. She helps people identify what matters, set manageable priorities, and try simple strategies between meetings.
Motivational techniques are used when someone wants support to make a change without feeling overwhelmed. People who come to her often want relief from daily pressure, clearer boundaries, or better ways to handle family conflict. She also works with those navigating divorce, blended family issues, fertility concerns, aging or caregiver burdens, and forgiveness work.
Darlene pays attention to cultural context and life history as part of planning care. Her office is in Louisiana and she provides sessions in English. She uses approaches that aim to make therapy practical and goal-oriented while keeping the person’s experience central to the work.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy is about listening and following what matters most to the person. It centers the conversation on their priorities and builds on their own strengths to tackle stress, relationship concerns, or self-esteem work.Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels stuck about change. It uses gentle questions to clarify what a person wants and to find small steps they feel ready to try, useful for habit shifts, workplace goals, or managing ADHD-related routines.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences and will adapt techniques as progress unfolds.
Online therapy makes those approaches more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper discussion and skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or cameras are limited. Live chat or text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, quick coaching, or keeping momentum between appointments. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and maintain continuity during life transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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