About Derylene
Derylene Proctor brings 30 years of counseling experience to her Florida practice as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC). She centers her work on helping people manage depression, anxiety, addiction, and relationship struggles. She aims to offer calm, practical guidance in moments that feel overwhelming.
She often helps people through midlife transitions and the stress those years can bring. She supports those working on self-esteem, self-love, and finding renewed life purpose.
Background and approach
She also addresses anger, trauma and abuse, and the isolation that can follow difficult events. Communication and commitment issues frequently appear in sessions. Derylene works with people to improve how they talk about needs, set boundaries, and rebuild trust after separation or infidelity.
She also addresses problems tied to substance use and co-morbid mental health concerns. Her style blends straightforward conversation with evidence-based tools. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify patterns that keep problems going and to build new coping skills.
She also draws on Motivational Interviewing to help people find internal reasons to change when motivation feels low. People meet her for step-by-step problem solving. She focuses on concrete goals like reducing panic, improving sleep, or repairing daily communication.
Sessions are meant to be practical and personal, helping clients make changes that fit their everyday lives.
Practical approaches for online healing
CBT helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that worsen anxiety, depression, or addictive patterns. Work in sessions focuses on simple exercises and small habit changes that can reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative way to build motivation for change. The therapist listens for a person's own reasons to act and helps turn those reasons into realistic steps, useful for substance use, commitment issues, or stages of change.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try techniques that match those goals, and adjust the plan as work progresses. Clients are involved in deciding which strategies feel most helpful.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls make it easy to have full conversations and see nonverbal cues, while phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a break at work. Live chat or text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, quick reflections between sessions, and ongoing connection when day-to-day life is hectic. These options help make steady progress without a major schedule overhaul.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English