Darris is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with a Master’s in Clinical Psychology from Union College in Kentucky. Darris has experience working in college programs and outpatient mental health clinics with a diverse array of clients, including teens, young adults, adults, and couples.

Darris has had the privilege to help guide clients through anxiety, depression, life transitions, parenting skills, grief, trauma, and relationship difficulties. Understanding the unique journey of each client, he tailors interventions drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), and Gottman Method. Darris believes that the client-therapist relationship is the most crucial aspect of therapy and strives to compassionately meet clients where they are. This builds a safe environment for clients to accept their current inner experiences, while simultaneously moving forward in reconnecting with healthy relationships to others and themselves.

Darris is continually seeking to grow as a clinician and person. Outside the office, he enjoys binging podcasts, reading books, watching movies, and spending time with his wife and 2 kids. An avid animal lover, Darris is the willing servant of 9 cats, and will also graciously accept dog lovers.

“Being the ‘best you can be’ is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.”

-Sue Johnson