About Diane
Diane London is a licensed counselor with more than two decades of experience helping people make meaningful change. She holds LPCC and LPC credentials and works from Michigan. Diane focuses on practical steps clients can use to manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship or intimacy concerns.
Her background includes graduate work in marriage and family therapy and a PhD in organizational psychology. She also completed post-graduate work in sex therapy and has experience with trauma-focused methods including EMDR and Brainspotting.
Background and approach
That mix gives her experience with sexual concerns, grief, caregiving stress, and life transitions. Diane uses straightforward, goal-oriented talk alongside approaches that pay attention to feelings and values. Sessions can include skill practice, communication coaching, and pacing for difficult memories.
She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas, emotion-focused work, acceptance and commitment ideas, and attachment-focused perspectives. She helps people navigate relationship strain, intimacy problems, parenting stress, career shifts, and identity issues such as LGBT concerns. Diane also addresses complex areas like adoption and foster care, abandonment, chronic illness, and body image.
People who choose Diane can expect collaborative sessions aimed at clear next steps. She offers multiple ways to meet, including video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. International clients who speak English may work with her as well.
Approaches that translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to live with uncomfortable thoughts and feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and replacing them with practical strategies and new habits. It is often a good fit for depression, anxiety, and coping skills training. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on emotions and connection in close relationships, helping partners or individuals notice and change patterns that reduce closeness and safety. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Diane will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and preferences, and then suggest ways to combine these methods. That collaborative planning helps shape a tailored plan that can change over time as needs evolve. Online sessions offer flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people work face-to-face when visual cues help progress. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, coaching between sessions, or ongoing reflection that fits a busy schedule. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, family life, or travel while using approaches that are effective in conversation-focused care.Questions people ask
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- 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
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- 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
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota, Michigan
- Languages
- English