About Darlene
Darlene Goines is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She brings 18 years of experience and listens with steady attention to what matters most to each person. Her work centers on practical steps that fit into everyday life.
Darlene uses straightforward, person-focused methods to help people handle relationship strain and family tension. She helps parents who feel overwhelmed, individuals coping with grief, and people facing changes like separation or caregiving demands.
Background and approach
She also supports clients working through self-esteem, anger, intimacy concerns, and ADHD-related challenges. Her style is collaborative and goal-oriented. Sessions may include setting small, achievable steps, checking what’s working, and adjusting plans together.
She draws on Client-Centered ideas to follow what the person values and on Solution-Focused methods to build realistic next steps. Over nearly two decades she has seen a wide range of life disruptions, including blended family issues, fertility stress, and caregiver strain. That experience informs practical strategies for communication problems, boundary setting, and coping with loss or abandonment.
Darlene practices in Louisiana and conducts work in English. She aims to make therapy feel useful from the first few sessions by focusing on clear goals and skills people can use between meetings.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit daily life
Darlene commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow what matters most to each person. This approach focuses on listening carefully, reflecting back concerns, and helping people decide which goals feel right for them. It is helpful for building self-esteem, talking through relationship choices, and sorting through grief.She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy and Motivational Interviewing to move people toward small, practical changes. Solution-Focused work zeroes in on what will help next, identifying tiny steps that add up. Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure how to change by exploring personal reasons for change and boosting motivation.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Darlene works with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She reviews what is working and adjusts the plan so the therapy stays relevant and useful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging for flexibility. Video calls suit deeper conversations when face-to-face cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Chat and text formats let people stay connected between sessions and use brief messages for reminders or quick support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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