About Dariann
Dariann Updike is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, LPCC, with eight years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationships, and self-esteem struggles. She presents herself as warm and collaborative and focuses on practical skills that fit into daily life. Dariann aims to make therapy feel approachable so a worried parent can read and understand what to expect.
She uses clear, evidence-informed tools like cognitive behavioral techniques and emotion-focused work to help people handle strong feelings.
How Dariann works
Sessions often include learning concrete coping skills, practicing communication strategies, and building self-advocacy. The emphasis is on simple, usable steps rather than long explanations. Dariann adapts what she offers to each person’s needs.
She pays attention to how someone handles stress and tailors strategies for life changes and social anxiety. This makes sessions feel personal and focused on immediate concerns. The approach is collaborative.
Clients set goals and work with Dariann to try techniques and see what helps. Small changes and steady progress are encouraged over quick fixes. She also supports people who want to improve relationships and communication.
That work often involves learning ways to express needs clearly and practice healthier interaction patterns. Dariann hopes to help people leave sessions with skills they can use the same week. To start, readers should be prepared to talk about current priorities and what feels most urgent.
Dariann aims to make each session relevant and manageable so clients can move forward at their own pace.
Dariann lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Dariann works with
The areas below are the ones Dariann selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
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Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Kentucky |
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Online support options
How Dariann’s approaches translate to online work
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and trying concrete techniques to change them. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and low mood by teaching skills you can practice during the week.Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, helps people notice and name strong feelings and how those feelings affect connections with others. It can be useful for improving communication and resolving relationship-based stress.
Dariann treats finding the right approach as a joint process. She talks with each person about their goals and preferences, then tries approaches that match what they want to change. This collaborative process helps refine techniques over time so sessions feel relevant and useful.
For practical online considerations, confirm which session formats are offered before booking since they are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into busy routines, allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, and remove travel time so people can focus on problem solving. Therapists and licensed professionals often adapt exercises for remote meetings, using worksheets, behavioral tasks, and communication practice that can be done between sessions.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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