About Darlene
Darlene Graham is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 17 years of experience guiding people through personal and relational growth. She frames therapy as a practical, step-by-step process that helps people shift unhelpful thoughts and build stronger connections. Her approach aims to help clients find clearer direction and more satisfying relationships.
Darlene focuses on relationship issues, self-esteem, career concerns, and coping with life changes. She also supports people dealing with eating and body image struggles, intimacy-related issues, anger, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Her work often addresses family of origin patterns, communication problems, and forgiveness. She blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral and emotion-focused approaches. Sessions include thought restructuring, skills practice, and exploring attachment patterns that shape how people relate.
The style is collaborative and paced to the client’s needs. Darlene uses practical coaching techniques alongside counseling to help people set goals and take steps toward them. That can mean learning new ways to talk with others, managing strong emotions, or making career decisions.
The aim is useful change rather than labels. Based in Indiana, she offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
People who prefer conversational, action-oriented work may find this style helpful.
How attachment, emotion work, and CBT translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connections shape current relationships and emotional responses. Online sessions can help people notice those patterns, practice new interactions, and try different ways of relating to partners or friends.Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on identifying and working with strong feelings to improve closeness and trust. In remote sessions the therapist helps name emotions, track interaction cycles, and rehearse new responses that build emotional safety over time.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical ways to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. That can include simple exercises between sessions, tracking thought patterns, and trying small behavioral experiments to test new ways of acting.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and which methods feel most useful. Together they will pick a path and adjust it as progress and needs evolve.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls let the therapist and client use visual cues and do deeper emotion work. Phone sessions can fit a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging can be used for quick check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep momentum and fit therapy into daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Body image
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English