Diane Critchlow

Diane Critchlow is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Washington with 12 years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, self-esteem concerns, relationship and family problems, career uncertainty, and compassion fatigue. Diane also helps people navigating adoption and foster care issues, attachment struggles, blended family dynamics, and divorce or separation.

Her approach mixes practical cognitive behavioral tools with attachment-based thinking and client-centered conversation. Sessions are interactive and focused on skills people can use between meetings. Diane uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing techniques to help clients notice patterns and consider new responses.

She often helps people untangle how past experiences affect current relationships and choices. That can look like talking through family of origin issues, practicing new ways to communicate, or building coping skills for overwhelming emotions. Diane also supports work on body image, codependency, commitment and control issues.

Diane frames work around clear goals and problem solving. She collaborates with each person to set manageable steps, try different strategies, and track what changes. For someone feeling stuck after a life change, she focuses on concrete moves that can restore direction and improve day-to-day functioning.

People who want to begin fill out a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session. Sessions are offered in English and follow the LMHC scope of practice in Washington.

How Diane's approaches translate to online sessions

Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes the ways early relationships shape current bonds. In sessions this means looking at how patterns from childhood show up now and practicing new ways of connecting and communicating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thinking and behavior patterns that keep problems going and testing small experiments to change them. Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person's own goals and perspectives, with the therapist following the client's lead to clarify values and next steps.

Diane treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, test different techniques, and agree on what to keep or change. That means the method can shift as needs and preferences become clearer.

The biography does not specify which online session formats are used, so confirm current session options before booking. In general, online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, offer shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. They also allow work on communication skills and behavioral experiments that transfer to everyday life. Diane combines her chosen approaches with practical at-home exercises that fit each person's routine.