About Diane
Diane Critchlow is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with twelve years of clinical experience. She offers a warm, interactive, and non-judgmental presence to help people manage anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship strain. Diane focuses on practical skills and clearer thinking to make day-to-day life easier.
She combines attachment-based ideas with cognitive behavioral tools and client-centered listening. That means she pays attention to how early relationships affect current reactions, teaches ways to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and centers the conversation on each person's goals.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be straightforward and collaborative. Diane works with people facing trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and family-related concerns such as blended family issues, adoption and foster care challenges, or family of origin problems. She also supports those dealing with self-esteem, body image, codependency, and commitment or communication struggles.
Practical problem solving and goal setting are part of the work. Her approach addresses life transitions like career changes, divorce or separation, and ongoing feelings of emptiness or abandonment. Diane uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help people notice patterns and find motivation for change.
The methods are chosen to match what each person needs. Clients can expect a therapist who listens, helps set achievable steps, and focuses on usable skills. Diane encourages taking small, manageable actions toward healthier relationships and clearer decision making.
How Diane’s Approaches Work Online
Diane uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current reactions. This helps with relationship struggles, abandonment feelings, and patterns that repeat across your life. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and lift mood.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Diane will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together she and the client try techniques and adjust the plan so the work fits the person’s needs and pace.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls are useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a short break at work or require less bandwidth, live chat is helpful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule consistent work around daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English