About Diane
Diane Langston-Schicker is a Florida-based licensed marriage and family therapist with 27 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship concerns. Her work centers on practical ways to feel steadier day to day and to improve how people relate to themselves and others.
Diane uses clear, straightforward talk in sessions. She listens for what matters most to each person and then helps them try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skill-building for stress and sleep, strategies for managing mood, and steps to improve communication. <brHer background includes long experience with trauma, grief, addictions, and complicated life changes. Diane also supports people with identity and intimacy questions, body image concerns, and challenges around parenting and caregiving. She draws on a mix of clinical approaches to match what an individual needs.
Clients can expect a calm, steady presence and a practical focus on change. Diane aims to help people build habits that reduce overwhelm and increase confidence. She frames work as collaborative, with small, doable goals between sessions.
Sessions are offered in English and available through a range of online formats. Diane practices in Florida and has many years helping people move through difficult times toward clearer choices and more manageable days.
Approach and convenience of online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current connections. In plain terms it helps people notice patterns in relationships and practice new ways of relating to reduce anxiety and conflict. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns for mood, sleep, and worry. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, often called EMDR, is an approach used to reduce the intensity of distress linked to past traumatic memories and can be helpful for trauma recovery and related anxiety.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Diane will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and recommend which methods to try first. That decision happens together and is adjusted over time based on what helps.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face from different locations, phone is helpful when bandwidth or camera use is a problem, chat and messaging offer quick check-ins or ongoing written support. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy days and provide flexible ways to practice skills between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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