About Diane
Diane McCollum is a licensed professional counselor and licensed marriage and family therapist in Texas with more than 20 years of experience. She draws on her own experience with counseling to connect with people who want change. Diane sees clients as capable rather than broken, and she approaches work with respect, clear communication, and firm boundaries.
She uses a warm, compassionate style informed by humanist and spiritual perspectives. That outlook guides straightforward conversations about difficult topics like trauma, abuse, grief, and depression.
Background and approach
Diane helps people name how past events may be shaping their current feelings and behaviors. Sessions focus on practical goal-setting chosen by each client. Diane encourages people to create personal goals and then works alongside them to make steady progress.
She pays attention to family patterns and life transitions when those issues are part of someone's concerns. Diane also supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, parenting strains, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, and the challenges of chronic illness or caregiving. She uses approaches that include cognitive behavioral tools, mindfulness practices, and acceptance-based ideas to find what helps in daily life.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She aims to listen closely, reflect what she hears, and offer concrete skills or perspectives that people can try between sessions. For those facing big changes or lingering pain from the past, she offers steady guidance while clients work toward clearer choices and more manageable days.
Online approaches for anxiety and life transitions
Diane uses evidence-informed tools to help people manage anxiety, trauma, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. It often helps with anxiety, stress, and mood problems by teaching skills people can apply day to day.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, teaches people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to values-based actions. That approach can be useful for anxiety, chronic stress, and situations where avoidance has been a problem. Diane also draws on client-centered and mindfulness ideas to keep the work grounded in the person’s experience and to build awareness in the moment.
Choosing an approach is a team effort. Diane will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and life context and adjust methods as needed. She aims to try practical techniques early and refine them with feedback so each person finds what helps them most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video works well when visual cues help the conversation. Phone sessions can be easier if bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Chat and messaging let people send notes or brief updates between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other demands.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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