About Daffney
Daffney Tchassem is a licensed clinical social worker in Texas who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship and family concerns, and addictions. She works with people facing trauma, intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, career stresses, and compassion fatigue. Daffney also supports clients dealing with ADHD and a wide range of related challenges.
She keeps conversations straightforward and respectful. Sessions focus on what matters to each person, not on jargon.
Background and approach
She adapts the pace and tools to match a client’s needs and goals. Her approach blends evidence-based methods and a warm, client-centered style. That means she listens first, then uses practical strategies to reduce distress and build coping skills.
She draws on acceptance-based and cognitive techniques to help people respond differently to difficult thoughts and feelings. Over 16 years of practice she has worked with many life changes and complex situations. That experience informs how she helps people sort through grief, family shifts, and long-term stress.
She pays attention to attachment patterns and relationship dynamics when those issues come up. Daffney is licensed as a LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - in Texas. Sessions are offered in English and are available in several online formats to fit different schedules and needs.
Taking a first step can feel hard, and she aims to make that step easier with steady, practical support.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people accept difficult thoughts and feelings and commit to actions that match their values. It can help when worry, grief, or change make it hard to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, known as CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions influence each other and uses practical exercises to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people understand and change those patterns in relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals, try a few methods, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. This is a collaborative process that values your preferences and pace.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let you have a face-to-face conversation from wherever you are. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, real-time coaching, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and daily life.
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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