Dr. Darlene Viggiano, LMFT

Dr. Darlene Viggiano is a California LMFT with 18 years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing relationship strain, grief, anxiety, trauma and addiction, and she includes codependency and caregiver stress among her focus areas. She speaks English and practices in California.

Her sessions often look at how attachment patterns shape current relationships. She uses clear, practical conversation and helps people notice what keeps them stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her toolkit for shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Emotionally-Focused Therapy informs work around closeness and communication in intimate relationships.

She trained for a PhD in Psychology and has long experience in intensive outpatient settings. Over the years she has led clinical teams, supervised staff, and taught paraprofessionals and students specific approaches for trauma and addiction work. She has also presented workshops on Jungian and transpersonal topics and written books on dreams and pregnancy loss.

In her practice she has worked with a wide range of concerns such as infidelity, family-of-origin issues, process addictions, and perinatal substance abuse. She has facilitated anger management and couples communication groups and has used hypnosis in some clinical contexts.

People who come to her typically want practical ways to set boundaries, reduce anxiety, or get clearer about relationship choices. She aims to help people notice patterns, test new behaviors, and build steadier ways of relating. To begin, prospective clients choose online therapy options and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling a first session.

How her approaches translate to online work