Dr. Darlene Viggiano, LMFT

Dr. Darlene Viggiano is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and a Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology who brings a depth of clinical experience to work with individuals, couples, and families. She earned a PhD in Psychology from Saybrook University in 2010 and completed a Master’s degree in Psychology at National University in 1995, with a clinical license that dates back to 1999 and the California designation CA LMFT 35420. Over an 18-year span of practice, she has held roles as an Intensive Outpatient Program clinician, case manager, and clinical lead supervisor, combining direct client care with program development and staff training.

Throughout her career, Dr. Viggiano has trained paraprofessionals and students in therapeutic methods for addressing abuse, addiction, and related clinical concerns. Her clinical work has included treatment for adults molested as children, batterers’ intervention, dual diagnosis treatment, infidelity, and perinatal substance abuse, along with facilitation of anger management, couples communication, hypnosis, and mindful movement. She works with a broad range of presenting issues including relationship and family challenges, trauma and abuse, grief and intimacy-related concerns, stress and anxiety, addictions, sleep difficulties, parenting and caregiver stress, and mood disorders such as bipolar and depression.

Dr. Viggiano holds certification in Clinical Hypnosis from the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and early-career certification in the Duluth Model for batterers’ intervention. She has presented workshops on Jungian and transpersonal psychology and authored two books: Dreams and Dream-like Experiences: Their role in spiritual emergence processes, and Carrying On: A workbook for women who’ve lost a pregnancy. Professional affiliations have included membership in the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis and the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, and past involvement with the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis and the American Psychological Association Division 30, from which she received an Early Career Contribution Award.