About Dianna
Dianna M Shaw is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and life transitions. She works with adults seeking clearer direction, including young adults exploring life purpose and those coping with seasonal emotional changes. Her style is calm and direct, focusing on practical steps people can use right away.
With 24 years of experience, Dianna draws on straightforward methods to help people manage emotions and meet goals.
Background and approach
She listens first, then helps clients spot patterns that keep them stuck. Together they build small, doable skills for managing anxiety, anger, sleep problems, and cravings linked to addictions. Dianna also supports people working through grief, trauma and abuse, relationship stress, parenting strain, and career decisions.
She helps with eating issues, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and compassion fatigue. Her work often centers on improving everyday functioning and clarity about next steps. Her approach blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Narrative Therapy to change unhelpful thoughts and reshape personal stories.
Sessions aim to be practical - identifying what to try between meetings and reviewing what worked. She emphasizes realistic goals and steady progress. Dianna practices in Pennsylvania and conducts sessions in English.
People connect with her when they want a steady partner for change, someone who offers both empathy and practical tools.
How her approaches work in online therapy
Dianna uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change thoughts and behaviors that worsen anxiety, low mood, or unhelpful habits. CBT focuses on clear steps you can practice between sessions to reduce symptoms and build coping skills.She also uses Narrative Therapy to help people reframe the stories they tell about themselves. This approach can free someone from a single negative identity and open up new possibilities for decision making, goals, and self-understanding.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Dianna discusses goals and preferences with each person and adjusts methods to fit their needs. She treats therapy as a collaborative process where the client’s priorities shape the plan.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared screen work for exercises. Phone sessions are helpful when video isn’t practical or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between meetings, use brief coaching during a break, or keep a thread of progress over time.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English