About Darlene
Darlene Schmitt is a licensed mental health counselor with 33 years of clinical experience based in New York. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress and anxiety and the daily problems that get in the way of living well. She aims to make the first step toward change feel doable and purposeful.
Darlene often works with young adults and college students who face pressure around school, work, and identity.
Background and approach
She helps people manage mood struggles, panic, social anxiety, and compulsive or obsessive behaviors. She also supports those coping with grief, trauma, and issues around intimacy and sexual assault. Her style is client-centered and collaborative.
Sessions are practical, with room to talk through feelings and try new skills. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and on dialectical behavior strategies to manage strong emotions. <br
Approach and online options for anxiety and life challenges
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting space where clients can talk openly. It emphasizes the client's own goals and choices and works well for people who need understanding and steady support.Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and behaving. It is commonly used for anxiety, panic, obsessions, and mood concerns. Dialectical behavior therapy teaches emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills for intense feelings and impulsive reactions.
The therapist will work together with each person to find the best mix of approaches based on goals and preferences. That collaborative process lets the client try techniques and adjust as needed rather than committing to one fixed method.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone can fit a quick check-in or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can be useful for shorter updates and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum during life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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