About Diane
Diane Shrock-Wang is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 35 years of experience who helps people manage anxiety, stress, and major life changes. She works with adults facing relationship challenges, grief, career strain, addiction concerns, and shifts tied to aging or parenting. Her style is calm and direct, focused on practical steps you can use between sessions.
She draws on client-centered methods to listen deeply and follow each person’s pace.
Background and approach
Diane also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify thinking patterns that keep anxiety and low mood going. Attachment-based work comes into play when relationships and closeness feel stuck or unsafe. Many clients come for help with sleep, eating issues, or self-esteem and leave with clearer routines and kinder self-talk.
Others seek support for trauma, compassion fatigue, or navigating blended family and adoption-related stress. She also addresses intimacy concerns and the lasting effects of family of origin wounds. Sessions are practical and conversational.
Diane offers tools for coping, communication practice, and steps to rebuild trust with yourself and others. She integrates mindfulness when helpful to calm the nervous system and slow racing thoughts. Based in California as a CA LMFT, she offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time, and language of service is English.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Diane blends attachment-based work, client-centered listening, and cognitive behavioral techniques to address anxiety and relationship strain. Attachment-based Therapy looks at how early bonds affect current closeness and trust, helping people notice patterns in relationships and try new ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy means the session follows the client's lead, with the therapist offering empathy and reflection to help clarify goals and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing thought patterns and behaviors that fuel anxiety or low mood.Choosing the right method is part of the work together. Diane will discuss options during early sessions and adapt methods to fit each person's goals, comfort level, and life context. This collaborative approach helps make sure tools feel practical and relevant rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different needs. Video sessions are useful for deeper conversations and practicing new skills with visual cues. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and messaging allow shorter check-ins, journaling between sessions, and ongoing reminders of tools learned in therapy.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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