About Darcie
Darcie Kelly is a licensed clinical social worker with two decades of experience in mental health care. She holds the LICSW and the LCSW and practices from Montana. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the fallout from trauma and abuse.
Darcie takes a straightforward, down-to-earth approach. She meets people where they are and uses practical tools to help with everyday problems. Sessions aim to identify small, doable changes that reduce distress and improve daily functioning.
Background and approach
Her work draws from cognitive behavioral ideas, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-focused thinking, client-centered care, and mindfulness practices. That mix lets her tailor steps to a person’s needs, whether the issue is panic attacks, mood shifts, or eating and body-image concerns. She also offers support around relationship matters, intimacy-related issues, nontraditional sexual cultures such as kink and BDSM, grief, and parenting strain.
Darcie addresses complex experiences like dissociation, sexual assault and abuse, and domestic violence with attention to safety and pacing. People who prefer clear options and collaborative planning tend to do well with her style. She invites questions, makes concrete suggestions, and helps people track progress over time.
Her aim is steady, practical progress rather than quick fixes.
Therapeutic approaches and remote care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then take steps toward what matters. It can be useful for anxiety, avoidance, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thinking and behavior patterns that keep problems going and practicing small experiments to change them. It is often used for panic, mood difficulties, and stress management. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early and current relationship patterns to understand how people form bonds and react to separation or loss; it can be helpful for intimacy issues and relationship distress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together they will try methods that fit the person and adjust the plan as progress is tracked, keeping the process collaborative.
Online sessions give practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging works well for brief coaching or tracking between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while using the approaches above to address anxiety, trauma, mood, and related concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Montana, New Hampshire, Maine
- Languages
- English
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