About Daffney
Daffney Tchassem is a licensed clinical social worker in Texas who helps people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and relationship concerns. She has 16 years of experience and aims to make the first steps toward therapy feel manageable for those who are nervous about starting. Daffney works in a respectful and compassionate manner.
Sessions focus on what matters most to the person in front of her, and she adapts conversation and plans to each individual's needs.
Background and approach
She emphasizes clear goals and practical steps that fit daily life. Her approach draws on several evidence-informed methods to address thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. She uses tools that help people notice unhelpful patterns and practice different responses.
This can include managing intense emotions, improving communication, or building routines that reduce stress. Daffney has guided people through issues such as depression, trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, self-esteem struggles, parenting strain, and career transitions. She also supports people facing complex life changes like illness, caregiving burdens, or adoption and foster care matters.
Therapy sessions are offered in English and are available through a range of online formats. Daffney aims to collaborate with each person to set realistic steps and to track progress over time. Taking a first step is often the hardest part, and she frames that step as a meaningful act of care for yourself.
Approaches That Translate Well to Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that reflect their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life-direction concerns by focusing on what matters most rather than getting stuck on thinking patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. It can help with anxiety, depression, and coping strategies for daily stress.Daffney treats approach selection as a collaborative process. She will work with each person to try methods, check what helps, and adjust the plan based on goals and preferences. The result is a tailored mix of techniques aimed at practical progress rather than a one-size-fits-all prescription.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow fuller face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text messaging offer shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or other commitments while staying connected to a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- 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
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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