About Diane
Diane Cantwell is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 20 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and life changes. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Diane draws on her background as a former competitive gymnast who recovered from a serious injury. That experience shaped her focus on resilience and adapting to new realities. She uses straightforward tools to help people change how they think and behave when stress and worry take over.
Background and approach
In sessions she blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions, with hypnotherapy and mindfulness-based exercises. This mix is used to reduce anxious thinking, improve self-esteem, and address body image and social anxiety concerns. Diane explains techniques in plain language and practices them together with each person.
She also works on practical life issues like career decisions, parenting strain, divorce and separation, anger, forgiveness, and finding life purpose. Sessions include concrete strategies for coping with transitions and rebuilding confidence. Diane offers coaching-style guidance when clients want focused skill-building.
People can expect a calm, steady presence and direct tools to use between sessions. Diane invites clients to try approaches, give feedback, and adjust the plan as needed. Her goal is to help people build manageable habits that reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning.
CBT and Hypnotherapy in Online Care
Diane commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT breaks problems into small parts so clients can practice new responses to anxiety, social fears, and low self-esteem. Hypnotherapy is used as a focused, relaxed state to help reinforce positive suggestions and change habits like negative body image or strong panic reactions.Diane sees finding the right approach as a team effort. She will review goals, try techniques, and get feedback to adjust the plan. That collaborative process helps identify which methods fit someone’s needs and daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging let people share thoughts between sessions and get ongoing coaching-style support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep consistent progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Life purpose
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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