Darla Grieco, LMHC.

About Darla

A working therapist who built her own tool.

Darla is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in private practice in Snohomish, Washington. She holds a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from Northwest University (2014) and a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience from Washington State University (2004). She is also a trained lactation educator and postpartum doula, credentials she leans on in her work with women in the perinatal years.

Her practice, Calming Connections Counseling, is relational and somatic in orientation, drawing on Integral and Depth Psychology. She works with women moving through perinatal shifts, grief, anxiety, life transitions, trauma history, and the slow reckonings that don't always have tidy names. She is a late-diagnosed neurodivergent person herself, and a parent to three neurodivergent kids, which shapes how she meets neurodivergent clients in the room.

On her own practice site, she puts her stance like this:

"My role as a healer is not to heal you. It is to reflect the deep knowing you already possess."

Darla co-founded Ariadne with her husband Bryan in 2026. The platform exists because the marketing tools available to therapists in private practice are built for other businesses: restaurants, gyms, e-commerce shops, generalist consultants. The ethics of clinical practice, no solicitation of reviews from clients, no outcome claims, no language that creates a treatment relationship through marketing itself, are not built into those tools. So Darla & Bryan built one that is. The voice belongs to the therapist. The ethics belong to the profession. The work of finding clients gets quieter.

On the Ariadne blog, Darla writes about Google Business Profile setup for therapists, what to post on social media without crossing board lines, building a referral network without it feeling transactional, and the slower, more careful version of marketing that solo practices can actually sustain.