About Dianne
Dianne Koennecke is an AASW social worker and counsellor with 13 years' experience supporting people through anxiety, grief, trauma and big life changes. She offers calm, practical guidance and a down-to-earth approach. Parents reading this will find short sentences and clear steps in her sessions.
Dianne focuses on what is happening now and what can change. She listens first, then helps clients build small strategies to manage stress, anger and low mood.
Background and approach
She can incorporate a client's Christian faith when that is important to them. Her work often addresses relationship and family issues, including communication problems, attachment concerns and codependency. She also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, compassion fatigue and feeling isolated or stuck.
Dianne uses a mix of methods to suit each person. These include client-centred conversation, cognitive behavioural techniques to challenge unhelpful thinking, and narrative approaches to reframe life stories. Motivational interviewing helps when people want to commit to change.
Sessions move at a practical pace. She breaks problems into manageable steps and checks in on progress. The aim is clearer thinking, steadier emotions and better day-to-day coping.
Dianne works with people in Australia and runs sessions by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. She asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire, then schedules sessions according to availability.
Practical approaches you can use online
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. It gives clients space to set the pace and topics, and it helps build trust and clarity about what they want to change.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviours that fuel anxiety and low mood. It uses simple exercises to test unhelpful thinking and develop healthier habits, which can reduce worry and improve daily functioning.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name and shift strong emotions in relationships and personal life. It can be useful for those dealing with attachment issues, communication problems or intense emotional reactions.
Dianne treats finding the right approach as a joint process. She discusses different methods and tailors the mix to each client's goals and preferences. Together they experiment and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for deeper conversation and reading facial cues. Phone calls work when bandwidth is limited or hands-free time is needed. Live chat and text are handy for short check-ins, homework follow-up and people who prefer typed communication. These options make it easier to keep therapy part of a busy week and to access support from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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