Derylene Proctor, LMHC

Derylene Proctor is a licensed mental health counselor with 30 years of clinical experience in Florida. She focuses on helping people facing depression, anxiety, addiction, relationship struggles, and low self-esteem. Derylene draws on a steady, practical approach to guide people through big life changes and emotional setbacks.

Her work often centers on rebuilding self-worth and learning healthier ways to relate to others. She helps people who feel stuck by breaking problems into manageable steps. Communication, forgiveness, and self-love are frequent topics in sessions.

Derylene also supports those coping with midlife transitions and the ripple effects of isolation, impulsivity, or commitment issues. She uses clear, goal-focused methods to help clients identify what matters next and make sustainable changes. Her approach is calm and direct, with attention to everyday life challenges.

Christian-informed values are part of her perspective when clients request them, and she integrates those beliefs with therapeutic goals as appropriate. She aims to respect each person’s background while keeping work focused on practical progress and personal meaning.

People can expect a collaborative process that balances emotional support with concrete tools. Derylene encourages exploring purpose, improving communication skills, and creating healthier patterns. She helps clients move from feeling overwhelmed to taking steady steps toward the life they want.

How her approaches shape online therapy

Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative, person-centered way of working that helps people find their own reasons to change. It focuses on listening, building motivation, and guiding clients toward goals like reducing substance use or making relationship changes.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It uses practical tools like tracking patterns and testing unhelpful thoughts, which can help with anxiety, depression, stress, and anger.

Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaboration makes it easier to try new skills and adjust the plan as progress happens.

Because the profile does not list specific session formats, confirm which options are offered before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, shorten travel time, and allow quicker check-ins between appointments. Therapists and licensed professionals can adapt CBT and Motivational Interviewing to remote work so clients can practice skills between sessions and track change over time.