About Dianna
Dianna Privitt is a California licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage anxiety, stress, relationship problems, and life transitions. She offers straightforward support for grief, trauma, addictions, depression, and self-esteem concerns. Her approach is warm and direct, aimed at helping people take small, steady steps toward feeling better.
She creates a space where clients can talk about hard feelings without judgment. Sessions focus on what is most troubling now and on practical ways to cope between meetings.
Background and approach
Dianna listens for patterns in relationships and behavior, then works with each person to try different responses that fit their life. Dianna uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to values-based action.
Attachment-based ideas guide work on connection and safety in relationships. Emotion-focused ways of working are used when strong feelings need to be named and processed. With six years as a licensed marriage and family therapist, she has supported people facing a wide range of stressors, including parenting challenges, caregiving strain, chronic health issues, and questions of intimacy.
Her style balances empathy with practical planning so clients can try new skills between sessions. Sessions are offered in English and are provided through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Dianna practices in California and works with adults seeking help for anxiety and related concerns.
How online approaches and therapy methods work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take steps that match what matters to them. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape expectations and safety in connections; it can help with intimacy issues and patterns in close relationships. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person’s own goals and experience, with the therapist offering attentive listening and reflection to help clarify choices and values.Finding the best approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan as needed. Clients and the therapist work together to see what helps most in everyday life and to refine the approach over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people have fuller conversations when meeting face to face matters. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break or a walk. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep continuity when life gets hectic.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- 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
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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