About Darlene
Darlene Goines is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana with 18 years of experience. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth help for stress, anxiety, relationships, family concerns, parenting strain, grief, and self-esteem. Her work often centers on day-to-day problems and helping people find clearer ways forward.
She uses a client-centered stance that puts the person’s experience first. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Darlene also draws on motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons for change and solution-focused techniques to set short-term, achievable goals.
Background and approach
Her background includes long-term clinical work supporting people through life transitions, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses issues like intimacy, anger, ADHD-related challenges, blended family dynamics, and communication problems. This experience shapes a practical toolkit rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Clients can expect straightforward conversations that aim to reduce overwhelm and increase usable skills. Darlene helps people notice patterns, try new approaches between sessions, and build on small successes. She avoids clinical jargon and emphasizes steps people can use immediately.
Her perspective is informed by years of local practice in Louisiana and attention to cultural context. Darlene aims to create a respectful, affirming space where people can talk through tough topics and work toward clearer, more manageable next steps.
How Darlene’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely to each person and following their pace. It helps when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to talk through feelings and clarify what matters most to them.Motivational Interviewing is a conversation style that helps people find their own reasons to make changes. It is useful for decisions around caregiving, behavior changes, or managing stress when someone feels stuck.
Finding the right approach is part of the work and happens together. The therapist will listen to goals, try different strategies, and adjust plans based on what helps. This collaborative process means the plan can shift as needs change.
Online sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different days and energy levels. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper discussion, while phone sessions can fit a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy routine and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English