About Diane
Diane Poehlman welcomes adults who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward. She helps people who are coping with anxiety, depression, relationship strain, addictions, grief, or changes in life. Diane uses straightforward, practical methods to help clients set goals and take manageable steps toward them.
She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, with 30 years of experience. Diane has worked in inpatient and outpatient settings, group homes, foster care, and juvenile justice programs.
How Diane works
That range of work has exposed her to many life circumstances and ways people find strength. In sessions she looks at how past experiences affect present choices. Diane combines cognitive behavior strategies with mindfulness and emotional work to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build new skills.
She also uses narrative ideas to help people reframe difficult stories about themselves. Her approach is practical and collaborative. She teaches tools for coping, emotion regulation, and clearer communication.
Sessions focus on small, useful changes that add up over time. Diane works with a broad set of concerns including trauma and abuse, self-esteem, eating and sleep issues, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, and bipolar challenges. She also supports people facing abandonment, blended family strain, codependency, substance use, and divorce or separation.
Clients can expect a calm, experienced clinician who outlines clear steps and practices between meetings. Diane aims to help people let go of barriers and shape a life that fits their values and goals.
Diane lists 7 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.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How Diane’s Approaches Work Online
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is practical and helps with anxiety, depression, and many daily problems by teaching concrete skills for thinking and behaving differently.Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. It teaches skills people can use when emotions feel overwhelming and can be helpful for intense mood swings, anger, or chronic stress.
Diane treats the choice of approach as a shared process. She will talk with each person about goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. Together they will check what works and adjust the plan over time rather than sticking to one fixed method.
Online therapy offers options that fit different lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter, more frequent touchpoints. These formats make it simpler to keep consistent work on skills and goals while balancing other responsibilities.
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A practical next step
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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