Inner Tides Counseling, PLLC

Hi, I'm Darlene, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, founder of Inner Tides Counseling, PLLC, and your guide through life's ebbs and flows. With over a decade of experience, I specialize in supporting adolescents and adults navigating trauma, grief, loss, relationships, parenting, life transitions, depression, and anxiety. My work is grounded in relational, trauma-informed, and anti-oppressive frameworks rooted in feminist, attachment, and system theories - because healing is never one-size-fits all, and your lived experience always matters here. Drawing from a rich palette of modalities, I weave together expressive, play, and experiential therapies, mindfulness, nature-based and somatic perspectives, polyvagal-informed approaches, and parts work through IFS, EMDR, DBT, and CBT - always in service of what feels most aligned for you. There is profound power in feeling truly heard, validated, and understood - and that is the foundation of everything we build here. With curiosity, humor, and my own humanness, I create a space where your experiences, emotions, and resilience can be witnessed, held, and honored as we navigate the rhythms of your inner tides together.