About Diana
Dr. Diana Rowan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings 20 years of experience to conversations about stress, anxiety, depression, relationships, and life changes. She presents a straightforward, nonjudgmental presence and offers a place to talk through difficult feelings and decisions.
She speaks directly to adults who need a trusted person to listen and offer practical ideas. Her work is trauma-informed and looks at how past events shape current reactions.
Background and approach
She uses that perspective to help people understand patterns in relationships, work, and self-worth. Sessions focus on building on strengths and trying small changes that can make daily life easier. Diana blends several approaches to match each person’s needs.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She uses Psychodynamic ideas to look at how past experiences affect the present. Solution-Focused and Trauma-Focused strategies help when immediate coping and healing are priorities.
She has specific experience supporting veterans, first responders, people living with HIV, and athletes, and she is comfortable addressing blended family concerns, grief, fertility issues, and career transitions. She also helps with addiction, intimacy issues, and coping with disasters. Dr.
Rowan earned a PhD in Social Work and a Master of Social Work degree. She holds a North Carolina LCSW license (NC LCSW C006174). Her style is collaborative and practical, aimed at helping people make steady progress on the problems that brought them to therapy.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Dr. Rowan often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavioral changes that reduce anxiety or low mood. CBT is practical and often focuses on tasks between sessions to build new habits.She also uses Trauma-Focused Therapy to address the effects of past traumatic events. This approach centers on processing difficult memories and learning coping skills to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss your goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together you will choose methods and adjust them as progress is made so the plan fits your needs.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different lifestyles. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between visits. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family, or travel while keeping a steady therapeutic routine.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English