Darice Dodd, LPC

Darice Dodd is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with two decades of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, relationship problems, and aging and geriatric issues. She offers calm, focused support for concerns like depression, trauma, ADHD, caregiver strain, and parenting challenges. Darice aims to treat each person with respect and compassion while helping them take practical steps forward.

She uses a mix of well-known approaches to shape therapy to each person’s needs. That can mean drawing on cognitive-behavioral tools to change unhelpful thinking, acceptance-based strategies to manage difficult feelings, or attachment-focused work to improve close relationships. Sessions emphasize strengths, clear goals, and skills people can use between meetings.

Darice trained at Georgia State University, earning a Master of Science in Professional Counseling and an Educational Specialist degree in Marriage and Family Therapy. She holds LPC licensing in Georgia and Missouri. Her background includes work in mental health and substance use settings across many populations and settings over nearly 20 years.

In sessions she keeps the tone nonjudgmental and practical. Conversations are tailored to a person’s life and goals, and plans are adjusted as progress is made. People who bring complicated issues such as chronic illness, caregiving stress, blended family concerns, or identity-related worries will find an approach that looks at both feelings and everyday solutions.

Her practice focuses on helping people build coping skills, repair relationships, and manage life changes. If someone wants help sorting problems and trying new ways forward, Darice offers steady clinical support and collaborative planning.

How therapy approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then taking actions that line up with personal values. It can help when anxiety, grief, or life changes make it hard to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches concrete skills to identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors, which can reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety, and some types of addictive behavior. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people create healthier ways of connecting with others.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to concerns, discuss options, and adapt methods to suit goals and preferences. That means trying strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting plans together rather than committing to one fixed path up front.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life and reduce travel time. It can also allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, or make it simpler to keep continuity of care across different locations. Because session formats were not specified in the profile, confirm current session options before booking to learn which formats are offered. Licensed professionals can use online work to focus on skills practice, values-based goals, relationship patterns, and problem solving in ways that fit daily routines.