Darcy Sterling


Dr. Darcy Sterling is an American clinical social worker, relationship expert and television personality. She co-owns the New York City-based group practice Alternatives Counseling. Sterling is the host and relationship expert on the E! network series Famously Single, and is a contributing writer for Psychology Today and other publications.

Early life and education

Sterling was born in Livingston, New Jersey. She graduated from Columbia University in 1996 with a master's degree in social work, and received a Ph.D. from the New York University School of Social Work in 2006.

Career

Counseling

Sterling began practicing as a clinical social worker in 1996. Two years later, she formed Alternatives Counseling in New Jersey. Now located in New York City, the practice specializes in teaching relationship skills to individuals and couples, with an emphasis on positive psychology and Imago relationship therapy.

Advice column

Sterling writes an advice blog, Ask Dr. Darcy, which appears on her website. It was featured in GO magazine from 2008 to 2015, and in Psychology Today starting in 2011. She has also written for The Huffington Post, and her advice has been highlighted in Woman's Day and Experience Life magazine. In 2009, she was named one of GO magazine's 100 Women We Love.

Television

Sterling made her national television debut in 2011, providing expert commentary on "When Women Kill", an E! Entertainment special profiling female criminals. She appeared as an expert on RT News segments in 2011, and on The Bill Cunningham Show in 2012.
She is the host and relationship expert on the E! reality television series Famously Single, which premiered on June 14, 2016, and features a cast of eight celebrities living together for a month. Sterling leads the participants in group and individual exercises designed to help them work out personal issues at the root of their romantic problems.

Personal life

In 2009, two months after a civil ceremony in Connecticut, Sterling married Stephanie Koncicki in Manhattan in a Jewish ceremony. Their married name, Sterling, was taken in honor of a family of Holocaust victims with no surviving members. They live in New York City.