About Diane
Diane Henning creates a calm, affirming space for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or big life changes. She offers straightforward support for depression, addiction concerns, and identity questions, including LGBT matters. Diane is an Illinois LCPC with 15 years of clinical experience and listens without judgment.
Her approach stays practical and person-focused. Sessions often center on what matters most to the client - values, day-to-day coping, and clearer communication.
Background and approach
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to notice unhelpful thoughts and from mindfulness to help calm the body and mind. Diane also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people decide what kind of life they want and take steps toward it. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used when emotional regulation and distress tolerance are needed.
She adapts techniques to fit each person rather than following a single method. In therapy she helps people address relationship tension, parenting stress, caregiving burdens, and work-related overwhelm. Other areas she supports include chronic illness, grief, attachment concerns, and struggles with boundaries and codependency.
She speaks plainly and offers concrete strategies to try between sessions. People meet Diane in a collaborative way. She helps set goals, tracks progress, and adjusts plans when something isn’t working.
Her style is steady and respectful, aimed at helping clients build skills that make daily life more manageable.
How Diane’s Methods Translate to Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, concrete steps toward those values. It’s useful for stress, life transitions, and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depressive patterns. It’s practical and goal-oriented. Mindfulness Therapy trains simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional awareness, which supports coping with anxiety and chronic stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Diane will collaborate with each person to choose strategies that fit their goals and daily life. Sessions start with clear goals and are adjusted over time, so techniques are matched to what actually helps the client feel better and function more easily.
Online sessions give flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills training and deeper conversation, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can support brief check-ins, homework feedback, or ongoing encouragement between sessions. These options let people use therapy in ways that fit their routines and energy levels.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- 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
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English