About Darlene
Darlene Narvae is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey with 30 years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and related life difficulties. Her work also includes helping people navigating grief, relationship strain, ADHD, and LGBT concerns.
Her sessions are described as warm and interactive. She treats people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion, and adjusts conversations to fit each person's situation. The aim is to make steady, manageable progress rather than rush through change.
Background and approach
In practice she draws on several approaches, including acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive-behavioral techniques, client-centered methods, dialectical behavior strategies, and mindfulness. Those tools are used in simple ways: noticing unhelpful thoughts, trying small behavior changes, and practicing present-moment skills.
Darlene has a long history of supporting people after trauma or abuse and helping with parenting stress, career questions, sleep and eating struggles, and major life transitions. She pays attention to both immediate coping and the patterns that keep difficulties going. The focus in sessions is collaborative.
She helps people set goals, test practical strategies, and build skills they can use at home. People who prefer an empathetic, experienced counselor and clear, concrete steps may find this style helpful.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting trapped by them and then focus on actions that fit their values. It can be useful for anxiety, avoidance, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) addresses unhelpful thoughts and patterns by testing new behaviors and building skills for mood and sleep problems. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship so people feel heard and can explore what matters to them.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Darlene will discuss options and tailor methods based on a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. She works collaboratively to try techniques and adjust the plan over time, combining strategies that fit the individual.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different situations. Video is useful for full conversations and teaching skills. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates or ongoing support between longer appointments. These options provide flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, or mobility limits.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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