About Diane
Diane Poehlman is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 30 years of clinical experience. She offers calm, direct support for people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, relationship strains, grief, and other life disruptions. Her style is practical and goal-oriented, aimed at helping people move forward in small, clear steps.
Diane has worked in a variety of settings over three decades, including inpatient and outpatient programs, group homes, foster care, and juvenile justice.
Background and approach
Those experiences shaped a down-to-earth approach that honors different life experiences and cultural perspectives. She encourages clients to name what is getting in the way and to try doable changes that fit everyday life. In sessions she draws on cognitive behavior techniques to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and habits.
She also uses elements of dialectical behavior strategies to build emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. Narrative and mindfulness ideas are woven in to help people reconnect with values and calm their minds. Diane focuses on practical tools as much as personal insight.
She helps people set achievable goals, practice new ways of relating, and plan concrete steps when facing major life changes. She often works with concerns tied to trauma, addiction, self-esteem, sleep and eating patterns, and caregiver or compassion fatigue. People who choose Diane can expect a straightforward collaborator who listens, offers clear options, and tracks progress.
Her background working with diverse populations informs a flexible, respectful way of supporting each person's path to greater wellbeing.
How Diane’s approaches work online
Diane often combines cognitive behavioral ideas with dialectical behavior strategies and emotionally focused work to address both thinking patterns and difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more realistic, useful ones, which can reduce anxiety and change behavior. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving coping under stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on recognizing and reshaping emotional responses to improve connection and self-understanding.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. Diane approaches this collaboratively, listening to a client's goals and trying techniques that match those needs. She checks in about what helps and adjusts strategies so the work stays relevant and doable.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier and to fit different preferences. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill teaching and deep conversation, phone sessions can be a good shorter option or when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat can support quick check-ins or ongoing skill practice between sessions. These options increase flexibility and help people keep therapy going around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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