About Diane
Diane Critchlow is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who uses a warm, interactive style to help people cope with stress and anxiety. She writes plainly and listens closely to each person's story. Diane aims to make therapy feel like a practical, hopeful process rather than an overwhelming task.
With 12 years of experience she helps people dealing with depression, trauma and abuse, self-esteem problems, and life transitions. Diane also supports those navigating relationship and family challenges, career changes, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
She brings attention to how past experiences shape present feelings and behavior. Her work draws on attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice patterns and try new responses. She also uses client-centered methods that focus on each person's values and goals, along with mindfulness to build moment-to-moment awareness.
These approaches are mixed to fit what each person needs in the moment. In sessions Diane emphasizes practical skills and clear steps. She helps set realistic goals, practice communication strategies, and develop coping tools for anxiety and stress.
She also addresses deeper history when it helps explain current struggles. Diane describes her role as a guide who walks alongside people as they make change. She focuses on building stronger relationships with oneself and others and on creating healthier choices.
People work at a steady pace and decide which changes feel right for them.
How Diane’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Diane uses this to help people notice how they connect and react in close relationships and to try gentler ways of relating. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going. She helps people spot unhelpful thinking and practice small experiments to change responses to stress and anxiety.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Diane will listen to goals and preferences and then suggest techniques to try together. The plan can change over time so clients can keep what helps and drop what doesn’t, making the process collaborative and goal-oriented.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text sessions suit ongoing support between appointments. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family, and daily life while still using the same therapeutic methods Diane practices.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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