About Diana
Diana Johnstone is a licensed clinical social worker with 19 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, trauma, and mood concerns. Her approach centers on practical skills and listening to each person's needs.
She uses client-centered methods to build a trusting relationship and to highlight strengths. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is part of her work for changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also offers Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
Diana has long experience supporting people after traumatic events and with symptoms like panic attacks, dissociation, and post-traumatic stress. She helps people develop skills for emotion regulation, safer coping, and improved self-esteem. She also assists those dealing with caregiver strain, communication problems, and life transitions such as pregnancy and childbirth.
Sessions are framed around what the person needs right now. Diana emphasizes concrete tools such as grounding, relaxation, and thought-restructuring. She helps people practice new skills between sessions so progress continues outside appointments.
Clients who choose her often come for help with depression, anger, guilt, or isolation and to find clearer direction and purpose. Diana aims to make the work feel straightforward and manageable. She supports each person through the small steps that add up to real change.
How Diana’s Approaches Work Online
Diana combines client-centered care with targeted techniques to help people feel steadier. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building trust so clients can say what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical steps to change thinking and behavior that feed anxiety or low mood. Mindfulness Therapy uses simple practices to notice thoughts and sensations without getting overwhelmed, which can lessen panic and stress. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Diana will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they try methods, adjust as needed, and pick the mix that helps most for the situation at hand. Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is useful when visual cues help the work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to get consistent care, practice skills in real life, and stay connected when in-person visits are difficult.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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