Darlene Narvae
Hopeful, clear support for everyday parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Darlene
Darlene Narvae is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey with three decades of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and a wide range of life challenges. Her tone is warm and straightforward, aimed at parents and adults looking for clear support.
She uses practical talk and steady guidance to help clients take next steps when life feels overwhelming. She draws on approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to address unhelpful thoughts and build workable habits.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices and elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) are woven in to help with emotion regulation and staying present. Sessions are shaped around each person’s needs, so conversations are focused and goal-oriented. Darlene pays attention to everyday realities like work stress, parenting demands, sleep and eating issues, and relationship strains.
She also works with people facing trauma, addiction, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and long-term health or caregiving stresses. The aim is to find clear, manageable tools that fit daily life. Her style is respectful and interactive.
She listens firmly and responds with concrete suggestions and coping strategies. If someone wants a supportive guide to make changes, she helps set realistic steps and checks progress along the way. For those ready to begin, Darlene asks some basic questions to match therapy to goals and then schedules sessions that suit each person.
She provides video, phone, chat, and messaging options to make ongoing care practical.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values. It uses exercises to notice difficult thoughts without being dominated by them and is useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. It teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking patterns and to build better daily habits, which can help with depression, sleep and eating concerns, and coping with trauma.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Darlene works collaboratively to match methods to each person’s needs, goals, and preferences. She combines techniques when that makes sense and checks in regularly to adjust the plan together.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to keep work going between busy days. Video calls let people meet face-to-face from home, phone sessions provide a simpler option, and live chat or text messaging allow short check-ins and ongoing support. These choices make it easier to fit therapy around parenting and work demands while keeping momentum on goals.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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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