About Diane
Diane Paseos is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life transitions. She also supports those facing compassion fatigue, sleep problems, self-esteem struggles, career uncertainty, and mood concerns such as bipolar disorder. Diane works from Massachusetts and brings 25 years of clinical experience to each conversation.
She keeps sessions straightforward and practical. Diane listens first, then helps people set small, achievable goals.
Background and approach
She focuses on what is getting in the way and on simple steps that can change daily routines and thinking patterns. Diane uses a mix of approaches matched to each person's needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thoughts, mindfulness to reduce reactivity, and acceptance-based tools to clarify values and action.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused strategies help when someone needs to find momentum or quick improvements. In the room she aims for a warm and collaborative tone. Diane explains options plainly and works together with people to choose methods that fit their life.
Sessions often include simple exercises, behavioral experiments, and real-world planning to practice between meetings. Her background includes a Master of Arts in Social Work and decades of practice with adults encountering health-related stress, caregiving demands, grief, and transitions. Diane combines practical skill-building with steady support to help people move forward.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values. It is useful for stress, grief, and life transitions when someone wants a clearer sense of direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood. It often includes short exercises to try between sessions. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus; it pairs well with other methods when someone wants tools for day-to-day calm.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Diane will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then suggest strategies to try. The plan is collaborative, with regular check-ins to see what helps and what needs to change.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction from different locations, phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging works well for shorter check-ins, homework support, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to schedule consistent sessions and practice skills in real life between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Emptiness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, Virginia
- Languages
- English