About Diane
Diane Hendricks is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with fifteen years of experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She supports people facing addictions, ADHD, parenting strain, career transitions, and the emotional effects of illness or caregiving. Diane works with clients who identify as LGBT and those navigating blended family or attachment issues.
She meets people where they are and keeps the pace steady.
Background and approach
Her style is client-centered, meaning she listens first and shapes sessions around each person’s needs. Sessions are practical and conversational, with room for hard topics and occasional moments of lightness. Diane draws from a mix of approaches including cognitive behavioral techniques to tackle unhelpful thinking, emotion-focused work to improve connections, and mindfulness strategies to build calm.
She blends ideas to fit what a person needs rather than following one fixed method. Her background includes work in psychiatric settings, hospice, senior counseling, and support for Veterans and first responders. She earned a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Kansas and holds licenses as LCSW and LSCSW in Missouri and Kansas respectively.
People can expect straightforward talk, practical coping skills, and steady emotional support. Diane aims to help clients make small changes that feel manageable and useful in everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Diane uses client-centered work that begins with listening and shaping sessions around what matters to the individual. This approach helps clarify goals, build trust, and make small, manageable changes over time.She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress by breaking problems into concrete steps and practicing new skills between sessions.
Emotion-focused methods are part of her practice as well, helping people name their feelings and improve how they relate to others. This can be helpful for relationship strain, attachment concerns, and intimacy issues.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Diane will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, and together they decide which methods to try and how to adapt them over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make therapy easier to fit into work, caregiving, or busy lives while keeping the focus on practical progress and emotional support.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Kansas
- Languages
- English