About Dianne
Dianne Dabney is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, relationship strain, and phobias. She writes and talks plainly to make therapy feel manageable. Her approach aims to teach skills people can use day to day so they regain control over difficult feelings and situations.
She favors practical, evidence-informed methods that focus on how thoughts and behaviors interact. Sessions include clear goals, skill practice, and steps to test new ways of coping outside sessions.
Background and approach
Dianne blends structured techniques with a warm, client-centered stance so people feel heard while building tools that work. Dianne draws on five years of clinical work across Texas settings. That experience includes supporting people through trauma and abuse, grief, addiction concerns, and life transitions.
She also addresses issues such as ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, caregiver stress, body image, and intimacy-related struggles. In sessions she uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to map how thoughts affect mood and action. She also incorporates Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and Client-Centered Therapy to keep the pace focused on each person’s needs.
For relationship concerns she uses elements of the Gottman Method and Emotionally-Focused Therapy. Dianne aims to teach practical strategies rather than rely on jargon. She helps people set small, doable goals, practice new responses, and track progress.
Those who want straightforward, skill-based support may find her style fits well.
How Dianne’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person’s priorities. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects concerns back clearly, and helps set goals that matter to the person. This approach helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort their thoughts.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions influence each other. In online sessions this often means identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, testing small behavior changes, and using homework to practice new habits between meetings. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, phobias, and stress management.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills teach distress tolerance and emotion regulation in short, teachable steps. These skills can reduce intense emotional reactions and improve day-to-day coping. Online work often pairs brief skill coaching with follow-up practice tasks.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will discuss options, try techniques, and adjust plans based on the client’s goals and preferences. That collaborative process helps match methods to what actually helps in a person’s life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video is useful for a full session with visual cues, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins or ongoing support. These options make therapy more flexible around work, caregiving, and travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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