Darla Cozzarelli, LCSW

Licensed in California · 3 years in practice

Darla Cozzarelli is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, low self-esteem, and depression.

License and registration

LCSW, California: 127660 · expires December 2026
NPI: 1063160869 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 3
Languages: English

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About Darla

Darla Cozzarelli is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. She speaks plainly and listens closely so parents and individuals can feel understood. Sessions focus on practical steps and real-world changes, not jargon.

Darla brings warmth and steady support to difficult conversations. Her work draws on experience in community mental health, where she supported people dealing with trauma, homelessness, and co-occurring substance use and mood challenges.

Background and approach

That background shaped a flexible approach that fits different situations. She combines empathy with clear problem-solving to tackle immediate needs and longer-term goals. Darla also brings personal insight from her own life, including being adopted and navigating mental health challenges.

That perspective informs how she talks about relationships, identity, and healing. She aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where clients feel seen and heard. Her clinical style centers on the person in front of her and on collaboration.

Darla mixes client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques and motivational interviewing to build coping skills and change unhelpful patterns. She helps people set small, manageable goals and track progress at a comfortable pace.

Based in California, Darla works with people across a range of concerns including abandonment and attachment issues, codependency, communication problems, addiction, impulsivity, isolation, paranoia, post-traumatic stress, self-love, and sexual assault and abuse. She aims to support steady, practical progress while honoring each person’s story.

Focus areas and approaches

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Approaches Darla names

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Online support

How her approaches work online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s experience and strengths. It emphasizes listening, validation, and supporting each person to make their own choices, which can help with grief, identity questions, and self-esteem issues.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together. It uses clear exercises and steps to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with stress.

Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change. It is goal-oriented and works well when someone is unsure about changing habits like substance use or other patterns they want to shift.

Finding the best approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, needs, and preferences and may blend methods to fit the person. That collaborative process helps make sessions feel relevant and manageable.

Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messages. Video lets people read facial cues and do longer sessions, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is low, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing, brief check-ins between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules and to keep momentum between sessions.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does Darla commonly help with?

She works with people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem struggles, and depression. Additional focuses include attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, addiction, and post-traumatic stress.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Sessions combine person-centered listening with practical tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.

What background does she bring to therapy?

She has three years of clinical experience, including work in community mental health supporting people with trauma, homelessness, and co-occurring disorders. Personal lived experience also shapes her perspective.

Where is she licensed and based?

She is a licensed clinical social worker, LCSW, practicing in California.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can people outside the U.S. work with her?

International clients are not currently accepted; she works with clients located in California.

What session formats are available?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.

How does the subscription and cost work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

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