About Diana
Diana Lively is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oklahoma with 16 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, addictions, depression, and relationship struggles. She uses clear, practical steps to help clients make changes and build healthier routines. Her work often focuses on coping with life changes, grief, self-esteem, and issues around identity and intimacy.
She combines tools from cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness to reduce unhelpful thinking and support healthier behavior.
Background and approach
Diana draws on attachment-based ideas to improve how people connect and communicate in relationships. Her sessions are goal oriented and include teaching skills for relapse prevention when addiction is a concern. Diana has experience in community mental health and with court-related rehabilitation programs.
She has led outpatient and recovery groups and facilitated prevention and relapse prevention education. Her background includes administering drug and alcohol assessments, crisis work, and suicide prevention practice. Her approach blends clinical strategies with wellness and life-balance ideas.
She favors straightforward psychoeducation, practical coping skills, and development of family communication when relevant. Diana also uses elements of dialectical behavior ideas to help manage strong emotions and interpersonal stress. Clients can expect an active, collaborative process that mixes skill practice, education, and reflection.
Sessions aim to create small, achievable steps toward improved mood, clearer thinking, and more stable routines. Diana emphasizes building supports and routines that fit each person's daily life.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take action based on personal values. ACT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes by shifting focus toward meaningful behavior. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the thoughts and habits that keep problems going and teaches specific techniques to change them, which helps with anxiety, sleep, and mood issues. Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns of relating and trust so people can improve communication and feel more supported in relationships.Picking the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences. Sessions often combine approaches so the plan fits what a client needs in real life rather than sticking to one roadmap.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited and make it easier to fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, ongoing encouragement, and quick skill reminders between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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