About Diana
Diana Fischer is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 35 years of clinical experience in California. She blends therapy and coaching to help parents and individuals navigate family challenges. Diana focuses on practical steps that build confidence and encourage positive change.
She works with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, bipolar concerns, and addiction. ADHD is included among her focus areas, along with relationship and intimacy issues. She also addresses parenting, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and anger management.
Background and approach
Diana pays attention to how family history and social factors shape behavior. She helps people untangle multigenerational patterns related to violence, addiction, and family-of-origin problems. The goal is clearer communication and healthier daily routines.
Her style is heart centered and strength based. Diana emphasizes being heard and believed to create a collaborative atmosphere. From that space she helps clients set realistic goals and take concrete steps toward them.
She offers sessions in several online formats to fit different needs. Diana aims to support parents who want to feel more confident, people managing mood or substance concerns, and those recovering from trauma. Practical tools and steady guidance are central to her work.
Practical approaches for online family and ADHD support
Two evidence-based ideas Diana uses are skill-focused coaching and trauma-informed care. Skill-focused coaching teaches specific routines, communication techniques, and coping strategies that people can practice between sessions to manage stress, ADHD-related challenges, and daily family demands. Trauma-informed care means recognizing how past hurt affects current behavior and pacing work so people feel ready to try new skills and rebuild trust.Finding the right approach is collaborative. Diana listens to each person’s goals, life demands, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they pick techniques and a pace that match the client’s needs and preferences rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and energy levels. Video is useful for deeper conversations and role-play; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or hands-free conversation is needed; live chat and text messages work for brief check-ins, progress notes, or quick coaching between appointments. These options make it easier to keep consistent work while balancing family and work life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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