About Diane
Diane Shrock-Wang is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps adults manage stress, anxiety, relationship strains, and life changes. She uses clear, practical language and aims to make sessions feel straightforward and useful for busy people. Diane brings 35 years of clinical experience to each conversation.
Her work starts with what matters most to the client. She listens for patterns in relationships, self-talk, and daily habits. Then she helps people try small, doable changes that can reduce distress and improve functioning.
How Diane works
Sessions focus on practical skills, emotional understanding, and real-life problem solving. Diane draws on several approaches to fit each person’s needs. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early bonds shape reactions.
She applies cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build new habits. When trauma is part of the picture, she may include EMDR to address distressing memories. People come to Diane for a wide range of concerns, including grief, addiction, body image, parenting stress, career strain, and compassion fatigue.
She also supports people handling adoption and foster care issues, blended family challenges, and family of origin wounds. The aim is steady progress, not quick fixes. Diane works with English-speaking adults in California.
She matches her methods to each person’s pace and goals. Sessions are practical, calm, and focused on helping people gain more control over their lives.
Diane lists 10 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 35 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Diane commonly uses attachment-based work to help people understand how early relationships shape current reactions. This approach looks at patterns in how people connect and helps develop more supported ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT is another core method she uses to identify unhelpful thoughts and build practical strategies for changing behavior and mood.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Diane will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide whether attachment work, CBT, EMDR, or a mix of methods best fit the needs and pace of the person seeking help.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer ongoing support between sessions and can fit into busy schedules. These options let people access consistent care without traveling to appointments.
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