About Diane
Diane Critchlow uses a blend of practical, evidence-based approaches to help people handle stress, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions. She is a licensed mental health counselor, LMHC, with twelve years of experience. Diane keeps sessions warm, interactive, and nonjudgmental to make it easier to talk about difficult things.
She focuses on building useful skills for everyday challenges. That includes coping with depression, improving self-esteem, and managing relationship or family strain.
How Diane works
She also helps with career stress, compassion fatigue, and the fallout from past abuse or attachment wounds. Diane draws on attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Client-centered and mindfulness approaches guide sessions so people feel heard and learn ways to stay grounded. Her practice supports people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, blended family adjustments, body image concerns, codependency, and communication or control problems. She also assists those facing divorce, separation, domestic violence history, and family of origin difficulties.
Diane approaches change as a step-by-step process. Sessions include problem solving, goal setting, and developing new habits that fit each person's life. She encourages small, manageable actions that lead to clearer choices and healthier connections.
Diane lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Diane works with
The areas below are the ones Diane selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Washington |
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Online support options
How Diane's Approaches Work Online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions use that focus to help people notice attachment-driven reactions and build safer ways of relating to others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down unhelpful thoughts and behaviors into small parts. In video or phone sessions Diane helps people spot those patterns, try new responses, and practice skills between meetings.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Diane will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try first. Together they adjust techniques over time so therapy fits real life and actual challenges.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and real-time practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is a problem. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, short coaching, and ongoing support between sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people work on goals in a way that fits their day.
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