About Diamond
Diamond Marie Thaxton is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with seven years of experience. She focuses on practical, solution-oriented work that helps people make concrete changes in their lives. Her sessions tend to be direct and goal-focused.
She uses short assignments and follow-up tasks so clients can try new habits between meetings. This approach is aimed at people who want tools they can use right away to manage relationships, addictions, mood concerns, and self-esteem challenges.
How Diamond works
Diamond concentrates on relationship and intimacy-related issues, addictions, and mood concerns such as depression. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment concerns, body image, codependency, communication problems, infidelity, loneliness, and questions about life purpose and money. Her practice includes work with LGBT clients and people on the autism spectrum.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused Therapy to shape conversations and tasks. Sessions focus on identifying unhelpful patterns, testing small changes, and building skills for everyday life. Clients who prefer a direct, structured style tend to find this approach useful.
Diamond practices from New York and conducts sessions in English. She offers multiple online session formats so people can choose what fits their routine. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that works with the therapist's calendar.
Diamond lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Diamond works with
The areas below are the ones Diamond selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Online approaches for focused change
Diamond uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Motivational Interviewing to guide online work. CBT helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to reduce distress and improve mood. Motivational Interviewing is a conversational style that supports someone’s own reasons for change and helps build readiness to make new choices.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they choose techniques and pacing that fit the client's needs and adjust methods as work progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, written reflection, or people who express themselves better in writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and sustain momentum between meetings.
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