Jaime Darda
Compassionate, practical support for real family challenges
- Credentials
- MD, LCSW-C
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jaime
Jaime Darda is a licensed clinician with an MD and a Licensed Certified Social Worker-Clinical, bringing 10 years of professional experience to her work. She focuses on common and complex concerns such as stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, bipolar disorder, ADHD, addictions, and relationship and intimacy-related issues.
Jaime aims to make the first step easier for people who are anxious about starting therapy. She builds an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through hard feelings.
Background and approach
Sessions are direct and practical, with a focus on real problems and small, manageable steps forward. Jaime uses everyday language rather than jargon so families and parents can follow the process. Jaime draws on approaches like Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and habits.
She also uses mindfulness and solution-focused techniques to strengthen coping skills and find workable solutions. When relationship patterns are part of the problem, elements of the Gottman Method guide communication work. Her background supports work on parenting stress, blended family concerns, communication problems, caregiver strain, and issues tied to chronic illness or disability.
She also addresses attachment and abandonment struggles, dissociation, and disruptions in mood regulation. Jaime practices in Maryland and conducts sessions in English. She offers a mix of video, phone, chat, and text options to fit different schedules.
The focus is on steady progress and helping people regain balance in daily life.
How Jaime’s approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters to each person. It helps people feel heard and supports their own decision-making, which is useful for stress, grief, and parenting concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It teaches concrete tools to change unhelpful thinking and build new habits, helpful for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating issues.
Mindfulness Therapy adds present-moment skills to reduce reactivity and improve focus. It can help with emotional regulation and coping with chronic pain or caregiver stress.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Jaime collaborates with each client to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting plans as progress is made. That way therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals in multiple formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy around school, work, and caregiving responsibilities. The variety of formats also allows for brief check-ins or longer sessions depending on what a person needs at the time.
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.
Gottman Method
A research-based framework for couples, focused on how partners argue, repair, and stay connected. Practical and structured, with exercises to try between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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