About Diane
Diane Langston-Schicker is a Florida licensed marriage and family therapist with 27 years of experience. She helps people facing depression, anxiety, relationship concerns, and major life transitions. Diane focuses on practical steps that make day-to-day life feel more manageable.
Her work covers stress management, communication barriers, social anxiety, trauma recovery, and adjustment after change. She also addresses a wide range of concerns such as addiction, grief, intimacy-related issues, sleep and eating struggles, and parenting stress.
How Diane works
Diane pays attention to how past experiences shape current patterns and reactions. In sessions she uses approaches that center on attachment, the person in front of her, and thinking-pattern changes. Diane integrates techniques that help process difficult memories and improve how people relate to others.
She emphasizes clear tools and small experiments people can try between meetings. Diane describes a compassionate, tailored style. She aims to make the work feel collaborative and straightforward.
The goal is to build coping skills, reduce distress, and strengthen self-understanding. People who want practical strategies alongside deeper emotional work tend to find her approach a good fit. She accepts international clients and works remotely, offering multiple ways to connect that fit different schedules and preferences.
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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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches suited to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current reactions. It helps people understand connection patterns and build healthier ways of relating to others, which can improve communication and reduce worry in relationships.Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own experience and pace. The therapist listens and reflects so the person feels heard and can clarify what matters most to them. This approach helps with self-esteem, decision making, and navigating life changes.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thinking patterns and behaviors that keep problems going. It teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management.
Diane treats the selection of an approach as a collaborative process. Together the therapist and client review goals, preferences, and what has or has not worked in the past. She adjusts methods over time so the approach fits the person's needs and pace.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video can support deeper conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging tools are handy for brief check-ins or ongoing support. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity when travel or life demands change.
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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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