About Diane
Diane Poehlman is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with three decades of clinical experience. She approaches care with patience and straightforward guidance to help people untangle problems and move toward a life they choose. Diane aims to make sessions practical and focused, so parents and busy adults can find useful steps quickly.
She has worked in a variety of settings including inpatient and outpatient programs, group homes, foster care, and juvenile justice.
Background and approach
That background gives her a wide view of how stressful events and past hurts can shape present behavior. Diane draws on that experience when helping people facing addiction, mood struggles, grief, relationship difficulties, or changes in life roles. Diane uses evidence-informed tools to help people change unhelpful patterns.
She teaches skills from cognitive approaches and reality-based strategies, and helps clients identify what gets in the way of their goals. Sessions often focus on small, practical steps that build confidence and momentum. She also incorporates emotion-focused and mindfulness ideas to help people understand painful feelings and respond differently to them.
Narrative techniques are used when it helps clients reframe their stories and regain control over next steps. Diane keeps the work collaborative and aims to tailor methods to each person’s needs. Based in Florida, Diane brings a calm, direct style and a focus on real-world solutions.
She supports people dealing with addiction, anxiety, depression, family strain, parenting stress, grief, and other life challenges. Her goal is to help people find steady ways forward.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them. It is often used for anxiety, depression, addiction, and coping with stress. DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, focuses on emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships with clear skills practice. It can help with intense emotions, anger, and patterns that lead to self-destructive behavior. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and name core feelings and then use that awareness to shift how they relate to themselves and others; it can be useful for improving intimacy and repairing strained connections.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Diane will discuss these methods and try out techniques that match a person’s goals and comfort level. The choice of methods is collaborative and can change as needs evolve during treatment.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send notes between sessions or use written check-ins that fit a hectic schedule. These options offer flexibility so therapy can continue even when travel or work make in-person sessions difficult.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English