Darrell Morris, LCSW

Darrell Morris is a licensed clinical social worker with twenty years of counseling, mentoring, and coaching experience. He is a U.S. Army veteran who moved from enlisted ranks into leadership during deployments to Bosnia, Kosovo, and Iraq. He holds a Bachelor of Social Work from Brescia University and a Master of Social Work from Walden University.

He focuses on practical help for everyday problems like stress, anxiety, and low self-esteem. He also supports people facing career questions and major life changes. Sessions are conversational and goal oriented, with attention to what the person wants to change.

Darrell uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. He pairs that with coaching-style conversations to set clear steps and track progress. The work is hands-on and aims to build skills people can use between sessions.

He brings experience with adoption and foster care, body image concerns, chronic illness and pain, communication problems, divorce and separation, and family of origin issues. He also focuses on fatherhood issues, men's concerns, guilt and shame, life purpose, and multicultural matters, including veteran and armed forces issues.

Clients can expect straightforward feedback and a focus on practical tools. Darrell says he will not promise to fix every problem, but he will be present while clients work through change. He centers encouragement, motivation, and hope in his approach.

How CBT and Coaching Translate to Online Therapy

Darrell uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and change the behaviors that follow. CBT focuses on clear skills and small experiments, which translate well to remote work because clients can try exercises between sessions and report back on results.

He pairs CBT with coaching-style goals, breaking larger changes into practical steps. That approach helps when addressing career decisions, coping with life changes, or improving communication. The therapist and client work together to choose methods that match the person's goals and pace.

Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Darrell will review what is working and adjust methods as needed, combining CBT techniques and coaching elements to fit each person's needs and preferences.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for short check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options provide flexibility for scheduling and make it simpler to maintain momentum while managing a busy life.