About Dianne
Dianne Gadishaw is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with three years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, work through grief, and process trauma and abuse. Dianne centers sessions on each person's strengths and goals, and she encourages practical steps a client can take between meetings.
Her style is collaborative and respectful. She treats clients as the experts of their own stories and offers guidance without taking over.
Background and approach
Conversations often include goal-setting, skill practice, and check-ins about progress. Dianne draws on several grounded approaches to tailor work to individual needs. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is used to clarify values and build willingness to face difficult thoughts. Emotionally-Focused and Attachment-Based ideas help with understanding relationships and emotional responses. She also brings experience addressing first responder issues, gender dysphoria, HIV/AIDS concerns, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and non-monogamous relationship dynamics.
Those areas are woven into treatment when relevant to a client's situation. Dianne offers sessions in English and meets with international clients. She aims to make therapy practical and manageable for people juggling work and family demands.
Short-term goals and measurable steps are emphasized so progress is clear.
Approaches that translate well to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small, value-driven steps even when worry or fear is present. It is useful for anxiety and stress when avoiding thoughts gets in the way of living. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments and behavior changes, which can reduce symptoms and build confidence over time. Emotionally-Focused Therapy emphasizes understanding and shifting emotional patterns in relationships and personal reactions, which can help with grief and relational stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each client to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That can mean mixing techniques across approaches and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls allow a face-to-face experience for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a quieter interaction is needed. Live chat or text messaging can support brief check-ins, skill reminders, or people who prefer writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain ongoing momentum.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Depression
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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