About Darlene
Darlene Dezso, LICSW, helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and burnout. She focuses on restoring balance and building confidence. Her approach centers on respect, sensitivity, and practical steps toward a more fulfilling life.
She listens closely to learn what matters most to each person. Sessions are shaped around the client's needs and goals rather than a fixed formula. That can include working on self-esteem, motivation, or finding a clearer life purpose.
Background and approach
Her practice addresses a broad range of concerns such as coping with life changes, relationship strain, compassion fatigue, and mild to moderate depression. She also supports people dealing with family of origin issues, codependency, isolation, and problems that follow disasters or military service. Darlene uses conversational, down-to-earth methods that help a person notice patterns and try new ways of responding.
She draws on approaches like client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques to break unhelpful thinking and build manageable coping skills. With 35 years of experience in Alabama, most of her work has been in independent practice. She emphasizes empowerment and self-love, helping people move from confusion and fear toward clearer choices.
Taking the first step can feel hard, and she offers steady, compassionate support along the way.
How Darlene’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's concerns. It helps people feel heard and encourages self-discovery, which can be useful when sorting through anxiety, grief, or life purpose questions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It offers simple exercises to change unhelpful thinking and develop practical coping skills for stress, anxiety, and mild depression.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. These skills can help with relationship problems, intense emotions, and compassion fatigue.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods together, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That decision is collaborative and can change over time as needs evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat can work for quick check-ins or brief reflections. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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