About Diane
Diane Pukajlo is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strains, career challenges, and depression. She works with clients facing life changes and offers steady support while they find their own path forward. Diane emphasizes practical steps people can try between sessions to feel better in day-to-day life.
She approaches therapy with respect for each person's story and strengths. Diane uses a mix of methods to match what someone needs in the moment, so sessions can include problem-solving, emotional processing, or skill practice.
Background and approach
Her work is grounded in collaboration - she listens first, then helps set clear, achievable goals. With 20 years of professional experience, Diane draws on a variety of techniques to address attachment issues, communication problems, caregiver stress, and isolation. She also supports people dealing with chronic pain, illness, and seasonal mood shifts.
Sessions can focus on practical coping tools for panic and anxiety as well as rebuilding self-compassion and confidence. Diane holds LCSW and CSW credentials and practices in Colorado. She offers straightforward guidance and helps clients weigh options when they face career decisions, relationship transitions, or midlife shifts.
The emphasis is on small, manageable changes that build momentum over time. People can expect a calm, listening presence and clear steps to try between meetings. Diane aims to help people feel more in control and more able to handle everyday stresses.
She encourages questions and keeps the pace tied to each person’s comfort level.
How Diane’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people notice how early connection styles affect current feelings and reactions. It can be useful when trust, closeness, or repeated conflicts are causing stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical tools to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful thinking patterns. Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes identifying small, achievable steps and building on what already works to create quick momentum.Choosing the right approach happens together. Diane listens to a person’s goals, preferences, and the issues they bring, and then suggests techniques to try. She adjusts methods over time so work stays relevant and feels useful rather than overwhelming.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for busy schedules. Video is good for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is handy for short check-ins, and text messages let someone check in between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving routines, or days with limited travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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