About Darlene
Dr. Darlene Groomes uses a client-centered approach that keeps the person's needs at the center of each session. She is a Michigan Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with four years of clinical experience.
Her style is straightforward and focused on practical steps people can use right away. She helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, grief, and relationship concerns. She also supports those coping with trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, anger, and life changes like divorce or career shifts.
Background and approach
Parenting challenges, intimacy-related issues, and compassion fatigue are also within her scope. Her work draws on methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, mindfulness, and emotionally-focused practices. Sessions typically look at thoughts, behaviors, and feelings, then build small, manageable skills to change what isn’t working.
Mindfulness is used to ground people during difficult moments. Dr. Groomes integrates attention to physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs rather than focusing on just one area.
She listens, validates what people bring, and aims to help them find clearer direction and coping tools. If another clinician would be a better fit, she will provide a referral to local resources. Sessions are offered in English and take place with online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Her practice is based in Michigan and she brings a practical, listening-first approach to each person she meets.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what a person says, so the therapist follows each person's lead and helps them identify goals and next steps. This approach is useful for anyone who wants an empathetic space to talk through stressful or confusing moments.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns and can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal communication, which can be helpful for strong emotions and relationship strain.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences rather than assuming one way fits all. This helps shape a plan that feels realistic and useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use face-to-face conversation when that helps; phone sessions can fit a break at work or when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging is useful for shorter check-ins or ongoing written support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while keeping the focus on progress and practical skills.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English