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