About Diane
Diane Langston-Schicker is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in Florida with 27 years of clinical experience. She focuses on guiding people through stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and ADHD-related challenges. Diane works with clear, practical steps and aims to make therapy understandable for busy lives.
Diane uses straightforward talk therapy to help people name problems and try new ways of coping. She listens for patterns that keep a person stuck and suggests small changes to daily routines and thinking.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to what each person can manage. Her background includes long experience with trauma and abuse recovery and grief work. She also supports people facing addictions, bipolar mood concerns, and complicated life transitions.
Diane brings an emphasis on attachment and relationship patterns when those issues are relevant to a person's concerns. In sessions she draws on approaches such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral strategies, and EMDR when processing traumatic memories. She also uses Imago relationship ideas to address communication and closeness problems.
The goal is to match methods to a person’s needs rather than use a single technique. Diane aims to help people build stronger self-esteem, manage emotions like anger and shame, and improve sleep and eating when those areas are affected. She supports those coping with caregiving stress, body image issues, and identity concerns within the LGBT community.
Her style is calm, practical, and focused on useful skills. For someone seeking steady, experienced guidance, Diane combines long-term clinical experience with everyday strategies. She helps people set realistic goals and track small wins so progress feels tangible.
Approaches and online sessions that fit your life
Diane commonly uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early and close relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps when trust, closeness, or repeating relationship problems cause pain. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to spot unhelpful thoughts and shift behaviors that get in the way of daily functioning. CBT is practical for anxiety, mood, sleep, and ADHD-related routines. When trauma is a central issue, she may incorporate Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to help process distressing memories and reduce their immediate emotional charge.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Diane discusses goals and preferences and then suggests methods that match those needs. The plan can be changed as progress is made so the methods stay useful and manageable.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for shorter check-ins, or text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel and to use the format that feels most comfortable for a given moment.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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