About Diane
Diane Shrock-Wang is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 35 years of experience. She helps people facing anxiety, stress, relationship strain, loss, and life changes. Her approach is calm and straightforward and aimed at practical steps people can use day to day.
She works with adults across many life stages, including people coping with career shifts, aging concerns, and parenting pressures. Diane pays attention to how past attachments show up now and how patterns in relationships affect self-worth and coping.
Background and approach
She also helps with issues such as grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, eating and sleeping problems, and ADHD-related struggles. In sessions she blends several methods to match the person in front of her. Client-centered listening gives space to tell the story.
Cognitive behavioral techniques help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is offered for processing traumatic memories when appropriate. Diane emphasizes clear, usable tools.
She teaches communication skills, emotion regulation, and steps to rebuild trust in relationships. Practical homework and short-term coping strategies are part of her work for people who want measurable change. Her California practice also addresses attachment wounds, body image, codependency, blended family issues, and caregiver stress.
Diane aims to help each person set realistic goals and find steady progress toward improved daily functioning and connection.
Approaches you can use online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns influence current bonds and trust. Online sessions can help people notice attachment-related reactions and practice new ways of relating that reduce anxiety and improve connection. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and uses empathetic listening to help someone feel heard and understood; it suits people needing a steady, nonjudgmental space to talk through life stressors. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Diane will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, strengths, and preferences. That might mean combining approaches or trying different techniques over time to see what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are good for deep conversations and working through exercises together. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, tracking progress, and getting tools between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue care when travel or life changes make in-person visits difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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