About Diana
Diana Johnstone is a licensed clinical social worker with 19 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, trauma, and mood difficulties. She focuses on practical skills and on each person's strengths. Diana aims to build a calm space where people feel understood and can speak freely.
Diana works with people facing depression, panic, anger, and challenges with self-esteem. She offers support for people recovering from trauma and for those dealing with dissociation or post-traumatic stress.
How Diana works
She also helps people navigating caregiver stress, relationship communication problems, and the emotional impacts of disasters. Her style centers on collaboration and clear tools. Diana uses client-centered methods alongside cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness strategies to teach coping, emotion regulation, and relaxation skills.
Sessions tend to combine talking with practical exercises to try between meetings. Diana supports people through life transitions like pregnancy and childbirth, and addresses issues such as guilt, shame, isolation, and questions of life purpose. She also helps with self-harm recovery and building self-love through steady, skills-based work.
She is licensed in Wisconsin as an LCSW. Her approach favors steady progress, skill building, and focusing on what a person already does well. Diana encourages small steps toward a more satisfying, less stressful life.
Diana lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Diana works with
The areas below are the ones Diana selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 19 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person and their goals by using empathy, listening, and joint decision making. It helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort through feelings and priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, panic, and many everyday stressors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved communication skills to reduce intense reactions and build steadier coping strategies.
Finding the best approach is part of the work. Diana will collaborate with each person to try methods that match their needs and goals, adjusting techniques over time based on what helps most. The plan is personalized and flexible rather than fixed from the start.
Online therapy offers different ways to connect: video calls for a face-to-face feel, phone sessions when bandwidth or mobility is limited, and live chat or text messaging for shorter check-ins or between-session support. These options allow scheduling that fits work, caregiving, or other daily demands and make it easier to keep momentum on therapeutic goals.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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