About Diane
Diane Stapleton is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, depression, and life transitions. She writes in a straightforward way and offers calm, steady support to people who are feeling overwhelmed. Diane creates a welcoming space where clients can say what they are thinking and feeling without judgment.
She focuses on listening first, then working together to choose practical steps that feel doable.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be conversational and aimed at making daily life feel more manageable. With more than two decades of clinical work in Colorado, Diane brings long experience to common problems like isolation, grief, shame, and difficulty with communication. She also has experience addressing abandonment issues, body image concerns, codependency, and end-of-life or hospice related stress.
Her approach mixes client-centered care with practical skills from cognitive behavioral therapy and ideas from existential and Jungian perspectives. That means she pays attention to how people make meaning in their lives while helping them try new coping strategies. Diane works part time and offers sessions midweek, which can fit into busy schedules.
She encourages people to take a small first step and see how a few sessions feel before deciding on next steps. If someone wants steady, experienced support for common life and emotional challenges, she can be a calm, experienced ally.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and following what matters most to the client. It helps people feel heard and clarify what they want to change. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, teaches specific techniques to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood. Existential therapy looks at meaning, choice, and personal values to help people face life transitions and find clearer direction.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Diane will discuss goals and preferences with each person and adapt techniques as they go. That collaborative process helps identify whether more skill-building, meaning-focused work, or a blend of approaches is the best fit.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual connection. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work for brief updates, quick coping ideas, or people who prefer typed communication. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into busy weeks while still working toward real change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English