Diane is an experienced, licensed Mental Health Professional that believes everyone should have a safe and healing place to address personal and painful life experiences and to work through life’s difficulties. With a warm and empathetic approach, she uses traditional methodologies and current research to offer a personalized approach to each individual client. She believes therapy is a collaborative process, so she helps each client develop new coping skills, work through issues of childhood trauma, increase self-awareness, decrease symptoms of depression and anxiety, increase self-esteem, and identify new goals.

She holds a Master’s degree in Community Counseling (Clinical Mental health) from Gonzaga University. As Program Director for Miryam’s House, she worked with women who were healing from issues of abuse, poverty, grief and loss, and domestic violence. She facilitated training and clinical supervision for counseling interns. Additional experience includes providing therapy for at-risk students and their families in the Safe School Healthy Students Program. Working in school-based services, Diane provided assessment, counseling, and intervention services while promoting healthy childhood development.