About Diana
Diana Johnstone is a licensed clinical social worker in Wisconsin who focuses on trauma and mood concerns. She draws on client-centered work to help people feel heard and to build practical skills for managing stress, anxiety, and depression. She has nineteen years of professional experience and uses a mix of approaches to fit each person’s needs.
Sessions often include skill building for emotion regulation, grounding techniques for traumatic memories, and tools to lessen panic and low mood.
Background and approach
Diana commonly helps people recover after sexual abuse and assault, and she supports those working through self-harm urges, overwhelming shame, or isolation. She also assists people facing caregiver stress, pregnancy and childbirth challenges, and difficulties tied to family of origin or current family problems. Her work blends evidence-based techniques such as cognitive behavioral tools, dialectical behavior strategies, EMDR methods, and mindfulness practices.
The emphasis is on finding realistic, everyday strategies that fit a person’s life and goals. In sessions she centers the client’s strengths and encourages small, steady changes. People can expect clear explanations, step-by-step skill coaching, and open conversation about progress and setbacks.
Therapeutic approaches for online trauma and mood care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s experience, then building a treatment plan around their goals and strengths. It helps people feel heard and guides practical steps for change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior that fuel anxiety and depression. It uses short, focused exercises and homework to shift unhelpful thinking and to build coping skills for panic, low mood, and stress.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. These tools can help when emotions feel overwhelming or when communication repeatedly breaks down.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose and adapt methods based on symptoms, goals, and comfort with different techniques. This makes sessions more useful and easier to apply day to day.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills coaching, phone can be a good fit when bandwidth is low, and live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins or ongoing skill practice. These formats give flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English