Dr. Diane’s own journey began when, as a teenager, she wanted to understand the connections between the mind and the body, and how the art and science of medicine interrelate. With an extensive background in the humanities, particularly in languages and history, Dr. Diane first earned an undergraduate degree at UCLA, then a Master’s Degree in Public Health (M.P.H.), with a Population, Family and International Health major, at the UCLA School of Public Health.

Dr. Diane began medical school at the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara Escuela de Medicina in Mexico, and received her Doctor of Medicine degree from Boston University School of Medicine.

Dr. Diane completed her four-year psychiatry residency through the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, based at the San Fernando Valley training program. She then became Board Certified in Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and, after many years, a Life Fellow of that Board.

Dr. Diane has been in solo private practice in the same office in Beverly Hills for 35 years. During that time, she has served as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA, as part of the Voluntary Clinical Faculty.

Dr. Diane became very interested in learning how to help patients achieve better control over their challenges, such as chronic pain and other conditions. This led her to seek the education necessary to become certified in clinical hypnosis through the Southern California Society for Clinical Hypnosis, a branch of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. Dr. Diane applies hypnotherapy to psychoanalysis, having studied with the American Academy of Medical Hypnoanalysts, such that hypnoanalysis is added to her toolkit.