About Darryl
Darryl Khan is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Hawaii with twenty years of practice. He focuses on practical tools that help people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and difficult life changes. His approach is straightforward and aimed at everyday problems parents and individuals face.
He uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people recognize unhelpful thinking and change behavior step by step. He also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for managing intense emotions and building better coping.
Background and approach
Existential therapy helps people think about meaning, choices, and values when life feels disorienting. Over two decades he has worked with people facing trauma, substance use concerns, relationship and family strain, and chronic mental health conditions. He has experience collaborating with systems such as Child Welfare Services, family courts, and public safety departments when those issues come up in care.
Sessions tend to be interactive and culturally aware, with an emphasis on skill-building and real-life problem solving. He aims to help people reduce symptoms, improve daily functioning, and restore a sense of control after loss or crisis. People who reach out can expect a conversational tone and clear steps to practice between sessions.
He encourages clients to set goals, try exercises in daily life, and revisit what works so therapy fits each person's situation.
Practical therapeutic approaches for online care
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and depression. It breaks problems into clear steps so clients can practice new habits between sessions.DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills. These techniques are useful when strong feelings, anger, or relationship conflicts make daily life hard.
Existential therapy focuses on meaning, values, and life choices. It supports people who feel lost after big life changes or who want to clarify what matters to them.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying techniques, reviewing what helps, and adjusting the plan over time.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation from another place. Phone sessions can be a good option when video is not possible or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow for quick check-ins, shorter coaching-style moments, or follow-up between longer sessions. These options increase flexibility and let clients pick what works for their schedule and day-to-day needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English
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