Works with
- Anger
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
How Diane works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Years in practice
- 30
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Diane
Diane Poehlman is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with three decades of experience helping people make practical changes in their lives. She focuses on clear, usable strategies for issues like anger, addiction, anxiety, depression, and relationship strain. Diane writes and speaks plainly, and aims to help people move past what holds them back so they can live the life they choose.
She has worked in a wide range of settings over her career, including inpatient and outpatient programs, group homes, foster care, and juvenile justice.
Background and approach
That background shaped her ability to work with people who face complex situations and overlapping challenges. Diane draws on her long experience to match tools to each person’s needs. Diane uses everyday methods that people can practice between sessions.
She relies on cognitive behavior ideas to change unhelpful thinking patterns and on elements of reality-focused approaches to set achievable goals. Mindfulness and emotion-focused ideas also appear in her work when they help someone manage feelings like anger or grief. In sessions she helps clients identify how past experiences affect current choices.
Then she supports them in letting go of old patterns and trying new ways of coping. Practical skills, short-term problem solving, and steady progress are central to her approach. Diane is based in Florida and works in English.
She offers live and text-based options so people can choose what fits their life and schedule.
What Diane works with
Everything Diane lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Diane's practice.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Diane lists
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that fit your life and schedule
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. It is often useful for anger, anxiety, depression, and changes in routines. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes balance between acceptance and change and teaches skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and name strong feelings and use them to improve how they relate to others.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they try methods and adjust the plan based on what feels most useful and doable for the client.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give practical options for different days and needs. Video works well for full conversations and visual cues, phone can be a good shorter check-in or when bandwidth is limited, and messaging lets people share updates between sessions. These formats help make therapy easier to fit around work, caregiving, or travel while still using proven approaches.
Questions people ask about Diane
What kinds of concerns does Diane help with?
She addresses a broad range of issues including addictions, anger, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and family concerns, eating and sleeping problems, and coping with life changes.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is practical and straightforward. She uses cognitive behavior ideas, elements of dialectical and emotion-focused work, mindfulness, and narrative approaches to teach skills and solve problems.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Diane has 30 years of experience working in inpatient and outpatient programs, group homes, foster care, juvenile justice settings, and with clients facing dual diagnoses.
Where is Diane licensed and located?
She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida and practices from that state.
Which languages and international clients are supported?
Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are offered?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are fees and payments handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist arrangements; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Diane?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.