- Years in practice
- 6
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Dianna
Dianna Privitt is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California who helps people facing addiction, relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, trauma, anxiety, and mood concerns. She writes plainly and listens closely to what matters most to each person. Her approach centers on practical steps and steady support so clients can make changes that fit their lives.
Dianna creates an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be named.
Background and approach
She encourages clear goals and small experiments between sessions. Many clients work on improving communication, handling stress, managing anger, or rebuilding trust after loss or hurt. Her style blends acceptance and active work.
She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and act on them. Attachment-based ideas guide conversations about close relationships and how patterns developed over time. Dianna brings six years of clinical experience to her practice.
She draws on Client-Centered and Emotionally-Focused Therapy tools to help people feel heard and understood while they try new ways of relating. This mix lets her tailor sessions to practical needs and emotional repair. Sessions can focus on coping strategies for anxiety and depression, practical parenting concerns, or support through life transitions.
She supports people who want to reduce substance use, address compulsive behaviors, or improve intimacy and self-esteem. Dianna offers sessions in English and works with adults in California. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling the first session based on availability.
What Dianna works with
Everything Dianna lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Dianna helps people with.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Dianna lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take small, meaningful actions even when feelings are hard to sit with. It can help with anxiety, depression, addictions, and decisions about parenting and relationships. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current interactions and helps people change those patterns to feel safer and connect more effectively.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress unfolds, keeping the process collaborative and flexible.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when meeting in person is difficult. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support short updates, quick coping skills, or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into parenting schedules, work breaks, or times when leaving home is not possible.
Questions people ask about Dianna
What concerns does Dianna help address?
She helps with addictions, relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, grief, stress, anxiety, mood concerns like depression and bipolar, parenting, and related struggles such as self-esteem and intimacy issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is open and nonjudgmental and focuses on practical steps. Sessions blend listening with concrete tools and small experiments to try between meetings.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has six years of professional experience working with people on a range of concerns including addictions, relationship difficulties, and trauma.
What credentials and location apply to this therapist?
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, licensed in California and practices there.
Can I work with her if I live outside the United States?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to meet with clients.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling according to therapist availability.
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