About Diana
Diana Schmitz is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with thirteen years of experience supporting people through stressful life moments. She works with individuals facing anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, addiction concerns, and self-esteem challenges. Diana listens first and helps people set clear, realistic goals for change.
She begins by meeting each person where they are emotionally. Sessions focus on practical steps you can try between meetings. She teaches coping skills for overwhelming feelings, sleep and eating struggles, and day-to-day stressors.
Background and approach
Diana uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person. She draws on client-centered work to build trust, cognitive behavioral tools to shift unhelpful thoughts, and mindfulness to calm racing minds. She can also incorporate strategies from dialectical behavior therapy and the Gottman Method when relational patterns are a concern.
Her background includes work with people dealing with parenting strain, blended family issues, adoption and foster care questions, caregiver stress, and workplace or career transitions. She also supports those managing bipolar symptoms, substance use struggles, and eating or body-image issues. Sessions are offered in English and Diana accepts international clients.
People who want a collaborative therapist who focuses on practical skills and steady support often find her approach helpful. To begin, she asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a first appointment.
How Diana’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered work means the conversation starts with your priorities. The therapist focuses on understanding your experience and shaping sessions around what matters most to you; this helps when you need steady listening and direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches clear strategies for shifting unhelpful thinking and changing behavior. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, adds practical skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening relationships.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Diana will talk with you about your goals, try methods that seem to fit, and adjust the plan as progress is made. That collaborative process helps match skills and strategies to your day-to-day challenges and priorities.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can be good for quick check-ins or when a shorter contact fits your schedule. These options let people fit sessions into work breaks, evenings, or other busy times while keeping the focus on useful skills and steady support.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Arkansas
- Languages
- English