Darla Cozzarelli
Compassionate, practical care for life’s hard moments
LCSW California
- Experience
- 3 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and abuse, Grief
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Darla
Darla Cozzarelli is a licensed LCSW therapist based in California who works with people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, self-esteem struggles, and depression.
Background and approach
She brings three years of professional experience rooted in community mental health, where she supported individuals coping with trauma, homelessness, and co-occurring substance use and mood or psychotic disorders. Her background informs a trauma-aware practice that centers respect for each person's history and strengths.
Raised in part by her own life experiences, including adoption and personal encounters with mental health challenges, she blends professional training with lived insight. This combination shapes how she engages clients - with empathy, authenticity, and a commitment to collaborative care.
She emphasizes crisis intervention skills and practical treatment planning while helping clients build longer-term strategies for recovery and resilience. Darla uses a person-centered, trauma-informed stance and draws on evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioral therapy, client-centered therapy, and motivational interviewing to support clients as they pursue self-understanding and change.
She encourages clients to set the pace and aims to create an affirming, respectful environment for growth.
Evidence-Informed Approaches for Online Care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes understanding the client's perspective and creating a supportive, nonjudgmental environment where the person guides the pace and focus of work; it helps when someone needs validation and a space to explore identity and values.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful patterns of thought and behavior and is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching practical skills for coping and problem solving.
Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative conversational approach used to strengthen motivation for change and can be especially helpful when addressing ambivalence about behaviors like substance use or other habit patterns.
Finding the best therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each client to evaluate goals, current challenges, and personal preferences, and then adapt methods or combine techniques so the work feels useful and manageable.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, allowing people to fit sessions into their schedules and maintain continuity of care across different settings. These formats make it possible to access licensed professionals from home or other convenient locations while still focusing on practical skills, emotional processing, and forward movement.
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Experience
3+ years
Licensed
California
Languages
English