About Diane
Diane Pukajlo helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, career uncertainty, depression, and big life changes. She works with adults facing panic attacks, caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, and challenges like loneliness or midlife shifts. Diane is a licensed clinical social worker in Colorado with 20 years of experience as a professional social worker.
She uses straightforward, respectful conversation to help people move forward. Her style is warm and practical.
Background and approach
She treats each person as the expert on their life and looks for strengths to build on. Sessions focus on usable steps - small changes that fit day-to-day life. Diane aims to make progress feel doable rather than overwhelming.
She draws on several approaches to tailor work to each person. Attachment-based ideas look at how past relationships shape current patterns. Cognitive behavioral techniques help spot and change unhelpful thinking and behaviors.
Solution-focused and motivational methods support clear goals and steady momentum. Diane also addresses communication problems, polyamory and non-monogamous relationship concerns, seasonal mood shifts, and self-worth issues that often show up for women and caregivers. She helps people develop coping tools for managing persistent symptoms and recurring problems.
Her background includes two decades of hands-on practice in Colorado mental health settings. People who choose Diane can expect collaborative sessions that balance listening with practical suggestions. She offers a straightforward way to work on emotional and practical problems so life feels more manageable over time.
Approaches that guide online work
Diane commonly uses attachment-based work to look at how early relationship patterns affect current reactions and closeness. This approach helps people notice recurring relationship habits and try different ways of connecting that feel safer and more satisfying.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with concrete behavioral changes. CBT can be useful for anxiety, panic symptoms, and low mood by giving clear tools to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Diane will work with each person to choose or adapt methods based on goals, needs, and what feels most helpful. She checks in on progress and shifts focus when something isn’t working well.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows for face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, while phone sessions can be easier when video isn’t practical or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, scheduling, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or health limitations and to keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English