About Darryl
Darryl Khan works from a practical, skill-based approach to help people manage pressing problems. He is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Hawaii with about 20 years of experience helping people cope with anxiety, depression, trauma, and life changes. He keeps sessions straightforward and focused on what a person needs now.
Darryl uses methods that teach concrete skills for managing emotions and changing unhelpful thoughts. He often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques alongside existential ideas about meaning and choice.
Background and approach
Sessions may include learning coping skills, trying new behaviors, and talking through painful experiences. He has worked with people affected by substance use, chronic mental health challenges, and complex systems like child welfare or family court. That background helps when cases involve legal, social, or caregiving stressors.
He also supports people facing grief, relationship conflict, parenting strain, and workplace pressure. His style is interactive and culturally aware. He aims to create a calm, direct space where people can set realistic goals and practice small changes between sessions.
He meets people where they are and adjusts the pace to what feels manageable. Clients typically work on skills for emotion regulation, problem solving, and communication. He also helps people reflect on values and meaning when choices feel unclear.
Many clients leave with clearer strategies to handle stress, improved coping, and a plan for next steps.
Online approaches that teach skills and explore meaning
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. It helps with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes by teaching straightforward techniques to change thinking and behavior.DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. It is useful when strong emotions, impulsive behavior, or relationship conflict get in the way of daily life.
Existential Therapy invites people to consider values, choices, and meaning in their lives. It can help when someone feels stuck, uncertain about direction, or conflicted about major life decisions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match goals, current needs, and personal preferences rather than starting with a fixed plan. That means trying techniques, checking how they feel, and changing course when needed.
Online sessions offer flexibility and make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls provide face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be a good option when being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice between sessions, or ongoing touchpoints without scheduling a full session.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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