About Diane
Diane Henning is a licensed clinical professional counselor with 15 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and life transitions. She offers a calm, affirming style and focuses on practical steps that fit day-to-day life. Diane aims to make the first sessions feel straightforward and approachable for someone who is worried or overwhelmed.
Her work centers on the person's goals and values. She listens for what matters most and helps set small, doable steps toward change.
Background and approach
Diane uses a mix of methods to address worry, trauma, and challenges with relationships, identity, or career direction. Clients who contact her often want help with coping skills, clearer communication, or getting through a major life shift. She also supports people facing grief, addiction concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and issues related to adoption or attachment.
Diane pays attention to how identity and life context shape emotional patterns and coping choices. Sessions tend to include skill-building, reflective conversation, and problem-solving tailored to each person. Diane draws on acceptance-based and cognitive tools alongside mindfulness exercises to reduce unhelpful thinking and strengthen day-to-day coping.
Practical homework and short skills practice are common between visits. She practices in Illinois and conducts sessions in English. Diane works with people across a wide range of concerns, and she aims to help clients find steady, realistic progress rather than quick fixes.
Online approaches that fit daily life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that move you toward what matters. It helps when anxiety or avoidance keeps someone from living the life they want. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking patterns and reduce symptoms. That approach is useful for worry, low mood, and repetitive anxious thinking.Choosing the right approach is something the therapist and client figure out together. Diane will talk with each person about goals, what has helped before, and what feels manageable. She mixes methods as needed and adjusts the plan when something isn’t working to find the best fit for the person’s needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can pick what fits their life. Video is good for full conversations and skills practice, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or texting can be useful for brief check-ins or ongoing support. These options give flexibility for scheduling, working around busy days, and staying connected between appointments.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- 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
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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