- Years in practice
- 5
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Anger management
About Dianne
Dianne Dabney is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people navigate parenting challenges and related stress. She aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for parents who feel overwhelmed, anxious, or unsure about next steps. Dianne writes practical, step-by-step guidance and focuses on small changes that add up over time.
She leans on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to look at thoughts and actions that keep problems going. She also draws from client-centered ideas to listen closely and follow each person’s pace.
Background and approach
Sessions include problem-solving, goal setting, and skill-building tailored to everyday family life. Dianne has five years of clinical work and practices in Texas. Her background includes work with adults and older adults across a range of concerns such as anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, trauma, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
She also supports people coping with relationship strain, communication problems, and blended family topics. In a typical session she helps parents sort priorities, try practical experiments, and set achievable behavior goals. She explains techniques in plain language and focuses on what can be done between sessions.
The approach emphasizes workable tools rather than long lectures. People often seek her help for parenting stress, anger, intimacy-related concerns, and life changes. Dianne combines supportive listening with concrete strategies so clients leave with a clear next step.
What Dianne works with
Everything Dianne lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Dianne helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Dianne lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
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
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping people set their own goals. In online sessions this means the therapist follows the client's lead and helps clarify what matters most to the parent or caregiver.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches concrete tools to change patterns. Online CBT often uses short homework tasks, thought records, and behavior experiments that can be done between video or messaging sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match goals, preferences, and everyday schedules. That may mean trying CBT techniques for anxious thinking or using client-centered conversations to prioritize immediate concerns.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow a face-to-face style check-in, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging formats work well for brief check-ins or ongoing support. These options give more flexibility to fit therapy into school pickups, work breaks, or busy days.
Questions people ask about Dianne
What concerns does she help with?
Dianne works with many concerns parents often bring, including stress, anxiety, depression, anger, grief, addiction issues, parenting strain, trauma and intimacy-related worries.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She primarily uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to connect thoughts and actions, and she uses client-centered methods to follow each person's pace and priorities.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has five years of professional experience providing counseling to adults and older adults in a variety of settings.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What formats are available for sessions?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as session formats.
How does cost and billing work?
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?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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