About Darlene
Darlene Narvae is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey with three decades of clinical experience. She meets people where they are and helps them manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and other life challenges. Her manner is warm and interactive, with attention to respect and compassion for each person.
Over her career she has worked with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, addictions, and caregiving stress.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing career shifts, parenting strain, sleep and eating concerns, and complex co-occurring conditions. Darlene pays attention to how symptoms show up in daily life and practical routines. Her style blends several approaches so sessions are tailored to the individual.
She uses cognitive-behavioral ideas to tackle patterns that get in the way. She also draws on client-centered listening and acceptance-based methods to help people clarify values and take meaningful steps. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused.
Darlene works with clients to set small, achievable goals and to build skills for coping and self-care. She emphasizes practical strategies people can use between meetings. People who choose her often want steady guidance and a respectful, empathetic space to talk through problems.
She encourages gradual change and partners with clients to find what actually helps in their daily lives.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions that match those values. It is useful for worries, depression, and struggles like ADHD when someone wants clearer focus and direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. It can be used for anxiety, mood problems, and practical routines such as sleep or organization.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences. Together you can adjust techniques as you learn what helps in day-to-day life rather than expecting a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online sessions offer flexibility and several ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a deeper back-and-forth is helpful. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are options for brief updates, skill reinforcement, or between-session support. These formats make it easier to access therapy around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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