Diane CritchlowLMHC

Diane Critchlow is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 12 years of clinical experience. She offers a warm, interactive, and nonjudgmental style that aims to make hard conversations feel manageable. Diane helps people facing depression, anxiety, and relationship strain take practical steps toward change.

She uses approaches that match each person's needs, blending cognitive behavioral methods, attachment-based ideas, and client-centered listening. In sessions she teaches skills for coping, improving communication, and responding differently to stress. Clients often work on setting clearer boundaries, managing emotional reactions, and making life choices that fit their values.

Diane has experience addressing trauma and emotional abuse, including childhood wounds that continue to affect current relationships. Her trauma-informed perspective helps people understand how past events shape present feelings and behaviors. She also supports those dealing with career transitions, compassion fatigue, and parenting or family-related concerns.

Specific focus areas include abandonment, attachment issues, adoption and foster care matters, blended family challenges, and body image or codependency struggles. Diane also helps people navigate divorce, separation, and family of origin problems that affect self-worth and daily functioning.

Diane emphasizes collaboration and practical problem solving. She helps clients set realistic goals and build skills to reach them. Her aim is to increase emotional resilience so people can make healthier connections and live more satisfying lives.

How Diane's Approaches Translate to Online Work

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current bonds and emotional patterns. It helps people understand why they react in certain ways and supports building safer, more predictable connections. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches concrete skills for managing anxiety, depression, and stress through practice and small behavioral changes.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Diane will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they can try different strategies and adjust the plan based on what actually helps in day-to-day life.

Confirm the session formats available before booking so the practical details fit your schedule. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people continue work through life transitions and family scheduling without rearranging as much in-person time. Licensed professionals can adapt these therapeutic methods to work well at a distance while focusing on skill building, communication practice, and problem solving.