About Daffney
Daffney Tchassem is a licensed clinical social worker in Texas who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, depression, and addiction. She also supports clients facing parenting challenges, intimacy concerns, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and career stress. Her approach is warm and straightforward.
She tells people that starting therapy is a courageous step and she will meet them there. Her style centers on listening first and adapting the work to each person's needs.
Background and approach
Daffney uses somatic ideas to help people notice how emotions show up in the body. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-focused work, client-centered methods, and cognitive-behavioral techniques to offer practical skills and insight. In sessions she balances talking and embodied work.
People learn simple grounding tools, ways to shift unhelpful thinking, and steps to improve relationships. Sessions can include exploration of past patterns that keep showing up in adult life. With 16 years of experience, she has worked across many concerns such as trauma and abuse, LGBT issues, blended family stress, chronic illness, and caregiver strain.
Daffney treats each person with sensitivity and respect and adapts the plan to what matters most to them. She practices in Texas and offers sessions in English. Therapy can be done by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on a client's preference and the platform used.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Somatic-informed work helps people notice and use body sensations as a guide to feeling and regulation; it can be useful for anxiety, trauma, and chronic stress by teaching grounding and gentle body awareness. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values, accepting hard feelings, and taking action in line with what matters most, which often helps with depression, anxiety, and life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns that formed in close relationships and helps people understand and change how they connect with others to improve intimacy and trust.Choosing the right method is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to goals, try different techniques, and adapt the plan based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist decide together which approaches to emphasize as the work progresses.
Online therapy via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. These formats let people attend from home, use shorter check-ins when needed, and continue work during major life transitions. The variety of options supports different comfort levels and schedules while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English