About Diane
Diane Shrock-Wang is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 35 years of experience. She works with adults who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, relationship strain, or life changes. Diane listens without judgment and helps people find practical steps to feel steadier day to day.
She uses a mix of approaches that match each person's needs. Sessions focus on clear goals, learning coping skills, and improving how clients relate to themselves and others.
Background and approach
The work can include short-term strategies for immediate relief and deeper work on patterns that keep coming up. Diane often addresses grief, trauma, parenting stress, career strain, and challenges tied to identity and intimacy. She also supports people navigating ADHD-related challenges alongside anxiety, sleep, or focus problems.
Conversations are direct and compassionate, aimed at usable changes rather than jargon. Her background includes long experience with attachment concerns, communication troubles, and blended family or adoption-related issues. Diane blends client-centered listening with cognitive tools to shift thinking and behavior.
She can also use EMDR methods when trauma symptoms are part of the picture. Sessions are offered from California and conducted in English. Diane frames therapy as a collaborative process and helps each person track progress.
Her style is steady, practical, and attuned to both immediate struggles and longer term growth.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Diane draws from attachment-based work and cognitive behavioral therapy to shape online sessions. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships affect current connection patterns and helps people change how they relate to others. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve functioning.She treats the choice of method as collaborative. The therapist and client discuss goals, symptoms, and preferences, then pick approaches that fit. That might mean starting with skill-building for immediate stress relief and shifting to deeper attachment work over time. Clients are invited to give feedback so plans can change as progress unfolds.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for more in-depth work and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Messaging and live chat help people stay connected between sessions and fit therapy into busy days. These options make scheduling more flexible and let clients match format to the kind of work they want to do.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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