About Dianna
Dianna Privitt helps people manage addictions, relationship struggles, family conflict, trauma and abuse, grief, stress, anxiety, and mood concerns like depression and bipolar. She also supports those facing issues with intimacy, eating and sleeping, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. Dianna is a licensed marriage and family therapist, LMFT, practicing in California.
Dianna aims to make therapy straightforward and down-to-earth. She creates a space where people can say what they feel without judgment.
How Dianna works
Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer thinking so daily life becomes easier to handle. Her approach draws from acceptance and commitment work, attachment-based ideas, and client-centered conversations. She also uses emotionally focused and existential perspectives when they fit a person's situation.
These methods help with identifying values, improving connection, and making sense of life changes. Dianna has six years of professional experience helping people move forward. She listens for patterns that keep a problem going and then helps try new ways of responding.
The work can include short-term strategies and deeper conversations depending on what someone needs. People meet with Dianna by phone, video calls, live chat, or text messaging. The first steps usually involve a brief intake and creating goals together.
She supports each person as they try things that fit their life and their schedule.
Dianna lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Dianna works with
The areas below are the ones Dianna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- 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
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people build safer emotional connection and clearer communication. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so clients feel heard and can find their own solutions to problems.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Dianna will work together with each person to figure out which methods match their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative planning can change over time as progress and priorities shift.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions let people read facial cues and have a more conversational experience. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, ongoing processing between sessions, or when scheduling needs make shorter contacts more practical.
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