About Dianna
Dianna Privitt is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California who helps people facing addictions, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and trauma. She offers calm, straightforward support for parenting stress, intimacy concerns, compulsive behaviors, and low self-esteem. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental and focused on small, practical steps.
Clients can expect a room where feelings and thoughts are named and noticed. Dianna listens and reflects so people feel heard.
Background and approach
She encourages clear goals and steady progress rather than quick fixes. Her work draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-focused ideas to help people notice painful thoughts and also move toward what matters. Emotionally-Focused Therapy and client-centered work guide conversations about attachment and connection.
She also brings an existential perspective when clients face big life questions. Dianna has six years of professional experience as a California LMFT. That experience includes helping people cope with grief, compassion fatigue, eating and sleeping issues, chronic illness concerns, and complex family dynamics.
She uses plain talk and practical tools so changes can fit into a busy life. Sessions focus on what someone wants to change, skills to try between meetings, and ways to measure progress. The aim is steady, manageable improvement in day-to-day functioning and relationships.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take actions tied to their values. It can be useful for anxiety, addiction, and depression. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how past connections shape current responses to stress and intimacy.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and together they will try methods that fit the situation. This collaborative process helps decide whether acceptance work, attachment focus, or client-centered conversations are most helpful at different stages.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls are good when face-to-face interaction matters, phone sessions work when bandwidth is low, and messaging can fit quick check-ins or brief support between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep continuity when life is unpredictable.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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