Diane Critchlow, LMHC

Diane Critchlow is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 12 years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She uses a warm, interactive, and nonjudgmental style to help people make practical shifts in their lives. Diane often helps clients who are navigating relationship strain, family conflict, career transitions, or the questions that come with midlife changes.

Her work blends several approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early connections affect current relationships. Mindfulness practices are also part of sessions to build calm and clearer choices.

Diane frames therapy as collaborative problem solving. She helps people set small goals, try new habits between sessions, and notice what works. She also attends to the impact of past trauma when it affects present feelings and relationships.

Clients can expect concrete skill building alongside reflective conversation. Diane helps with communication problems, codependency, commitment concerns, body image, family of origin issues, and the emotional fallout of separation or loss. Her aim is to increase coping skills and support better daily functioning.

She invites people to share their story and to take practical steps toward a life that feels more manageable and meaningful. Diane guides clients through problem solving, goal setting, and gradual change at a pace that fits their situation.

How Diane's Approaches Translate to Online Work

Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current bonds and communication. Online sessions can be used to explore patterns in relationships, practice new ways of relating, and notice how connection needs show up in daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thoughts and tests new behaviors. In remote sessions this often means setting small experiments between meetings and reviewing outcomes together to build clearer thinking.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Diane will collaborate with each person to identify which methods fit their goals and preferences. That collaborative process includes trying strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan based on real results.

Confirm the exact session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, shorten commute time, or reduce time away from work or family. It also lets people use mindfulness exercises, behavior experiments, and communication rehearsal in their usual environment. Licensed professionals can adapt tools like CBT worksheets and attachment-focused reflections to work well across distance, while keeping the focus on practical change and coping skills.