- Warm and interactive
- Skill focused
- Trauma informed
About Diane
Diane Critchlow is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with twelve years of clinical experience. She offers a warm, interactive, and nonjudgmental approach that helps people address depression, anxiety, stress, and relationship struggles. Diane focuses on practical skills and steady support to help people make real changes in their day-to-day lives.
She blends Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing to match each person's needs. In sessions she helps people recognize patterns that come from past relationships and family dynamics. Then she works with them to build different responses and healthier habits.
Diane has experience guiding people through trauma, emotional abuse, and difficult life transitions like divorce, adoption and foster care concerns, and career changes. She also addresses issues such as codependency, body image, and compassion fatigue. Her work includes supporting people facing family of origin problems and blended family challenges.
Her practical focus includes problem solving, setting new life goals, and learning skills to reduce internal conflict. Diane uses mindfulness and cognitive tools to shift unhelpful thoughts and reactions. She emphasizes collaboration so people leave sessions with steps they can try between meetings.
People who reach out can expect steady, empathic support and concrete strategies aimed at improving relationships and overall functioning. Diane encourages those ready to take first steps toward change to begin the process and explore what recovery looks like for them.
She blends Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing to match each person's needs. In sessions she helps people recognize patterns that come from past relationships and family dynamics. Then she works with them to build different responses and healthier habits.
Diane has experience guiding people through trauma, emotional abuse, and difficult life transitions like divorce, adoption and foster care concerns, and career changes. She also addresses issues such as codependency, body image, and compassion fatigue. Her work includes supporting people facing family of origin problems and blended family challenges.
Her practical focus includes problem solving, setting new life goals, and learning skills to reduce internal conflict. Diane uses mindfulness and cognitive tools to shift unhelpful thoughts and reactions. She emphasizes collaboration so people leave sessions with steps they can try between meetings.
People who reach out can expect steady, empathic support and concrete strategies aimed at improving relationships and overall functioning. Diane encourages those ready to take first steps toward change to begin the process and explore what recovery looks like for them.
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