About Darcy
Darcy Pare is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who works with adults feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, trauma, and life changes. She brings a calm, straightforward presence to sessions and helps people sort through difficult feelings so they can take practical next steps. Darcy also integrates clients' faith when they want spiritual beliefs included in care.
In sessions she focuses on what is happening now and on small changes that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
She uses somatic awareness to help people notice how stress shows up in the body, and she pairs that with talk-based tools to shift thinking and behavior. Techniques drawn from acceptance and commitment work, cognitive behavioral strategies, and mindfulness are woven together to meet each person's needs. Darcy draws on nine years of clinical experience in Florida.
She aims for straightforward goals that fit into busy schedules, like improving sleep, reducing panic, or handling strong emotions more effectively. People can expect clear suggestions, workable homework, and space to process hard moments. She is attentive to relationship and family pressures, parenting strain, grief, addiction concerns, mood disorders, and attention differences.
Additional focuses include attachment and adoption-related issues and the stress caregivers face. Darcy takes a practical approach when addressing communication problems, codependency, and commitment worries. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth.
She helps clients clarify values, build coping skills, and practice body-based grounding alongside cognitive tools. This combination aims to help people feel steadier and more able to meet what comes next.
How somatic and evidence-based approaches work online
Somatic work helps people notice how emotions show up in the body and then use gentle movement, breath, and grounding to reduce overwhelm; it can be helpful for trauma, panic, and chronic stress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed steps toward them even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear, which suits life transitions and recurring anxiety. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers concrete exercises to change unhelpful patterns, useful for depression, worry, and problem-solving.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. That could mean blending somatic noticing with CBT exercises and mindfulness practices so sessions fit what matters to the client.
Confirm the current session options before booking so you know what formats are available. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit regular sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. It also lets people use body-based or breathing tools in their own routine and try homework exercises between meetings to reinforce new habits.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English