About Diana
Diana Hartwig is a licensed independent social worker with practical experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD. She writes in a straightforward way and focuses on meeting each person where they are. Diana aims to make the first steps feel manageable and respectful.
Diana completed a Master of Social Work and has worked clinically for six years. She uses a person-centered style that keeps the client's voice central.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and tailored to what the individual needs right now. Her work draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and try small behavioral changes. She adds mindfulness practices to help with attention, stress, and emotional regulation.
Motivational interviewing is used when people want help finding reasons to change and building small steps that move them forward. Diana also uses narrative and solution-focused strategies to help people tell their story differently and focus on short-term goals. This mix supports people coping with life changes, trauma, relationship strain, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and end-of-life concerns.
She pays attention to strengths and values while addressing symptoms. Her style is warm and direct, with an emphasis on respect and dignity. Diana encourages collaboration so each plan matches the person's life and priorities.
She aims to empower clients to make steady, realistic progress.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the client's lead, creating space for people to talk about what matters most and decide the pace of change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior, helping people try small experiments that can reduce anxiety, depression, or attention-related struggles. Mindfulness Therapy teaches gentle attention skills and brief practices that can lower reactivity and improve focus for daily life.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Diana will work with each person to identify goals, try methods that match their preferences, and adjust as progress or needs change. The plan is shaped by what the client hopes to accomplish and how they like to work in session.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which allow for flexibility in scheduling and communication. Video calls let conversations feel most like an in-person visit, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day, live chat and messaging are helpful for quick check-ins or when typing is preferred. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or health-related routines while keeping the focus on practical steps and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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