About Darcie
Darcie Kelly is a licensed clinical social worker with two decades of experience in mental health care. She holds LICSW and LCSW credentials and practices from Montana, helping people facing depression, anxiety, trauma, and related stressors. Darcie aims to meet people where they are and work with whatever is happening now.
Darcie uses practical, behavior-focused methods to support change. She draws on cognitive-behavioral ideas and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try small doable steps.
Background and approach
She also uses attachment-based and client-centered approaches to help people feel heard and understood while they sort out relationships and emotional pain. She has a background in psychology and social work and has completed advanced study related to behavior change. That experience shapes how she blends short-term, solution-focused work with longer conversations about underlying patterns.
Darcie pays attention to both emotions and actions in sessions. People bring a wide range of concerns to her work, including grief, body image and eating issues, intimacy and sexual concerns, non-monogamous relationship questions, dissociation, and compassion fatigue. She is comfortable addressing trauma, panic, seasonal mood shifts, and issues tied to shame or abandonment.
Darcie aims for a direct but warm style in sessions. She listens with respect and offers clear options for tasks, experiments, and small skills to try between meetings. Her goal is to help people feel steadier and better able to handle life changes.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered remotely in formats like video, phone, chat, and text-based messaging. People begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling an appointment.
Approach-driven care for remote therapy
Darcie often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. ACT focuses on values and small committed actions that move a person toward a life they want, and it can help with anxiety, depression, and avoidance patterns.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. CBT breaks problems into manageable pieces and teaches practical skills for panic, mood shifts, and eating-related concerns. Attachment-based work is another element she brings in to understand how early relationship patterns affect current reactions and intimacy-related issues.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful. Sessions can shift between brief, skill-focused work and deeper conversations as needs change, and decisions about methods are made collaboratively.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and messaging allow for brief reflections and ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while using the approaches described above to guide progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also works with
- Abandonment
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Montana, New Hampshire, Maine
- Languages
- English