Dr. Darryl Arrington, LCPC NCC BC-THM, Board Member
For decades, in private practice and community health settings, Darryl Arrington has provided supportive services to underserved populations in Maryland. This effort is enhanced by a master’s degree in counseling from Capital Seminary and a Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Amridge University, each with specialized training in the areas of complex trauma recovery, compulsive behavior mitigation, and family relationship enhancement. Darryl has also supplied executive-level oversight of clinical care at two large residential treatment facilities. Professionally, Dr. Arrington has been a director, a researcher, a clinical practitioner and supervisor, a professor, and an author.
Yet, at heart, Darryl is an encourager, caregiver, advocate, and guide. He remains active in efforts to assist a wide range of often-neglected persons, including the homeless and human sex trafficking survivors. In these efforts, Darryl has found that he is uniquely shaped with a rarely heard voice to be moved by and pursue the well-being of hurting people. Narrative techniques, phenomenology, and an existential focus drive so many of his interactions, all empowered by a spiritual foundation that all of us are more than what is perceived by the five basic senses.
Darryl has authored several books. You Make Me Brave: Empowering the Shared Experience of Your Closest Relationships and You Make Me Brave Too: Empowering Parent-Child Sharing Over a Lifetime are both recent non-fiction works. He has also written fictional books, including A Woman to Love: A Novel and When the Grey Rose Blooms: A Novel. Darryl continues to look for opportunities to craft beautiful stories that reflect the people that he’s met, their victories, and their lessons learned.
Dr. Arrington has been a member of several professional and community organizations, including the Maryland Association of Counseling and Development, the Mid-Atlantic Division of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, the Christian Association of Psychological Studies, and the American Association of Christian Counselors. He is a longstanding member of the Maryland Human Trafficking Task Force Victim Services Sub-Committee. He also works with purpose-driven organizations to present compelling content at conferences and workshops.
In his private life, Darryl focuses on his “college sweetheart” wife and their 3 emerging adult children. Mountain biking and wilderness hiking also hold a particular draw for Darryl. He has also completed one cross-country driving tour from Maryland to southern California, and he hopes to do another from Maryland to the upper Northwest US.