About Darlene
Darlene Mayers is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Florida with 26 years of experience in mental health. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, mood changes, and addictions. She also helps with trauma and abuse issues, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and challenges around parenting and career changes.
Her work aims to be compassionate and direct. Sessions are interactive and respectful. She uses straightforward talk, practical tools, and exercises to help clients try new ways of coping and relating.
Background and approach
She blends several approaches to match each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Mindfulness exercises teach present-moment skills to reduce reactivity.
Client-centered methods keep the client's goals central during planning. Darlene has supported people facing complex life events, including chronic illness, caregiver stress, adoption and foster care concerns, and identity issues related to LGBT matters. She also addresses attention difficulties, anger, codependency, and communication problems.
She trained at Palm Beach Atlantic University, earning a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, and completed a Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy at Nova Southeastern University. Her long clinical experience means she is familiar with many common patterns and practical steps people can take to feel steadier.
People who choose her can expect a collaborative approach that focuses on clear goals, skill building, and regular feedback about progress.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions that fit your life
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's goals. The therapist follows the client's lead and helps shape goals and plans that feel relevant and realistic. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and actions that keep problems going and teaches clear strategies to change them and reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers skills for managing strong emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress when life feels overwhelming.Choosing an approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about their needs, preferences, and goals and recommend one or a blend of methods. This is a collaborative process and methods can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for sessions that require more face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can fit into a lunch break or work better when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are handy for shorter check-ins, skill practice, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep work moving forward without needing to travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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