Emotion-Focused Therapy
Explore emotional needs and patterns with greater clarity, compassion, and openness to change.
Therapy Approach
Evidence-based tools. Human-centered care.
Therapy is tailored to you, combining practical strategies with a warm, respectful relationship where meaningful change can take root.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Understand the patterns shaping how you feel
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, explores how thoughts, emotions, and behaviors influence one another. By noticing patterns and testing new responses, you can reduce distress and create more flexible, helpful ways of thinking and acting.
CBT may include practical exercises, reflection between sessions, coping skills, behavioral changes, and compassionate examination of deeply held beliefs.
CBT can help with:
- Anxiety and panic
- Depression
- Avoidance
- Perfectionism
- Self-criticism
- Stress patterns
Mindfulness
Build awareness without judgment
Mindfulness helps you notice thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations as they arise, without immediately reacting or becoming overwhelmed by them.
With practice, mindfulness can support emotional regulation, self-compassion, stress reduction, and a greater ability to stay connected to the present moment.
Trauma-Focused Therapy
Safety comes first
Trauma-focused therapy recognizes that difficult experiences can shape the nervous system, beliefs, relationships, and sense of safety long after the original event has passed.
The work begins by creating stability, choice, and trust. Processing happens gradually and collaboratively, with attention to your readiness and emotional capacity.
A trauma-informed foundation
Care emphasizes safety, transparency, collaboration, empowerment, and respect for your boundaries. You remain an active participant in every decision about treatment.
Additional Clinical Foundations
Relationship-centered and family-informed care
Diane’s training in structural family therapy informs how she understands patterns, relationships, roles, boundaries, and the systems that shape a person’s life.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Understand how relationships influence connection, safety, trust, and emotional responses.
Structural Family Therapy
Examine relationship patterns, roles, boundaries, and family dynamics that may affect current well-being.
Strength-Based Therapy
Build on existing resilience, capabilities, and the natural movement toward health and balance.
Individualized Treatment
Your therapy plan should fit your life—not the other way around.
Diane draws from CBT, mindfulness, trauma-informed care, strengths-based work, and person-centered therapy to create an approach that reflects your needs and goals.