Dr. Darlene Viggiano, LMFT

Dr. Darlene Viggiano is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology. She earned her PhD from Saybrook University in 2010 after completing a Master’s degree in Psychology at National University in 1995, and her clinical license dates back to 1999. Throughout a long career in clinical settings she has served as an Intensive Outpatient Program clinician, case manager, and clinical lead supervisor, bringing both front-line experience and leadership to her work.

She has trained paraprofessionals and students in therapeutic methods used to address abuse, addiction, and related clinical concerns. Her practice has included work with adults molested as children, batterers' intervention, dual diagnosis treatment, infidelity, and perinatal substance abuse. In addition, she has facilitated programs in anger management, couples communication, hypnosis, and mindful movement, integrating a range of interventions to meet varied client needs.

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 in Jungian and transpersonal psychology and is the author of two academic books - Dreams and Dream-like Experiences: Their role in spiritual emergence processes, and Carrying On: A workbook for women who’ve lost a pregnancy. Her professional affiliations have included membership in the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis and the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, and she has been recognized with an Early Career Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association Division 30 (Hypnosis).