Types of Care
Psychotherapy
Feeling your best through psychotherapy and psychopharmacology
Dr. Diane’s practice is set up to provide individual psychotherapy to adults. She accompanies each person on a journey toward healing and wellness. While emphasizing psychotherapy, Dr. Diane integrates medication management for those patients currently receiving psychotherapy.
Dr. Diane’s approach is humanistically and psychodynamically oriented, using cognitive-behavioral and clean language concepts, which draw upon her diverse education, experience, and continual training.
Dr. Diane offers various treatment modalities to attain emotional wellbeing, including:
- Psychodynamic (Psychoanalytic) Psychotherapy
- Supportive Psychotherapy
- Hypnotherapy (with or without hypnoanalysis)
- Maximizing the benefit of medication (where indicated) in conjunction with psychotherapy
Treatment with Dr. Diane can help to:
- Discover the root causes of problems related to emotions, behaviors, and thoughts contributing to difficulties.
- Learn healthy coping mechanisms
- Relieve unwanted emotional, psychological, and mental symptoms
- Learn and know yourself better
- Build self-esteem and self-confidence
- Regain / obtain a sense of control
- Find pleasure in life
Some of the difficulties Dr. Diane treats:
- ADD/ADHD (Attention Deficit Disorder / Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
- Adjustment Disorders
- Bereavement / grief
- Alcohol abuse
- Anxiety
- Anxiety attacks
- Atypical Mood Disorders
- Bipolar Disorder
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Chronic impulsivity
- Depression
- Different forms of mental illness
- Dual diagnosis
- Dysphoric Disorders
- Eating Disorders
- Emotional disturbances
- Fear
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Insomnia / sleep difficulties
- Mood swings
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
- Pain Disorders
- Panic attacks
- Panic Disorder
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
- Psychosomatic Disorders
- PTSD (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder)
- Relationship issues
- Self-esteem and confidence
- Separation Anxiety Disorder
- Situational problems
- Sleep difficulties / insomnia
- Social Anxiety / Phobia
- Disorder (excessive shyness)
- Specific phobias
- Substance (i.e., drug) abuse disorders
- Trauma and stressor-related disorders
- Trichotillomania
- Unwanted habits
- Worry
