About Dianna
Dianna Zuniga is a Licensed Independent Social Worker and Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in California. She brings 21 years of experience and a calm, empathetic presence to sessions. Dianna meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps they can use day to day.
Dianna helps with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and challenges related to parenting and relationships. She also supports people dealing with addictions, compassion fatigue, anger, self-esteem, and ADHD.
Background and approach
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish. Her approach is direct and skill-based. Dianna uses methods like cognitive behavioral work to reframe unhelpful thinking, dialectical skills for managing strong emotions, and mindfulness to improve focus and calm.
She also draws on solution-focused ideas to set clear goals and on trauma-focused techniques when past events affect current life. Dianna has worked across many settings, including mental health and substance use clinics, and in public and personal schools. That variety informs how she adapts tools to everyday life and school or work demands.
She focuses on helping people build skills they can actually use outside sessions. In sessions she aims to be warm, respectful, and nonjudgmental. Treatment plans are collaborative and practical.
The emphasis is on small, repeatable changes that add up to better coping and clearer goals.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions help
Dianna commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy in online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety or low mood. DBT offers concrete skills for regulating intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving communication in high-stress moments.She also incorporates mindfulness practices to improve attention and calm. Mindfulness exercises are brief and can be practiced between sessions to help with focus, stress, and impulse control. Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process; the therapist and client work together to choose methods that match the client’s goals, needs, and day-to-day routine.
Online formats used include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for deeper conversations and skills practice where seeing facial cues helps. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a session needs to fit into a short break. Live chat and messaging are convenient for brief check-ins, skill reminders, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work across different settings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- California, Ohio
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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