About Darryl
Darryl Khan is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Hawaii. He brings 20 years of experience helping people manage depression, anxiety, trauma, and life changes. He also works with concerns like addiction, relationship strain, grief, and ADHD.
He uses short-term and skill-based methods that focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and building coping skills. Sessions are practical and interactive, with steps people can try between meetings. He aims to help clients reduce distress and handle daily stresses more effectively.
Background and approach
Darryl has worked with people connected to systems such as child welfare, family courts, and public safety. That background informs how he supports those facing complex life situations. He draws on a variety of approaches to match what each person needs.
His style is culturally aware and compassionate. He encourages straightforward conversation and clear goals. Many people find this approach useful when navigating parenting worries, career pressures, or relationship conflict.
Darryl frames therapy as a partnership. He listens first, then helps build skills for mood regulation, communication, and problem solving. He welcomes questions and works at a pace that feels manageable for the person sitting across from him.
How Darryl’s approaches translate to online care
CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Online CBT sessions often include simple exercises and homework to practice new skills for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and coping with life changes.DBT teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. In remote sessions this can mean learning and rehearsing specific skills for managing strong feelings, improving communication, and reducing impulsive behavior.
Existential therapy looks at meaning, values, and life choices. When done online it supports people grappling with big questions about purpose, loss, or major transitions by using reflective conversation and goal-setting.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Darryl will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, symptoms, and daily routines. He listens to what matters most and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online formats offer flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, fine-tuning skills between sessions, or when note-taking and pacing are preferred. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and varied schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English
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