Diane Critchlow, LMHC

Diane Critchlow is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who uses a practical, person-centered style to help people move through stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She creates a warm, interactive, and nonjudgmental space so people can begin to make small, steady changes.

Diane focuses on everyday challenges like relationship problems, career shifts, parenting concerns, and family-of-origin issues. She also works with people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care histories, attachment struggles, and the fallout from emotional or domestic abuse.

Her work blends cognitive behavioral ideas with attachment-based and client-centered approaches. She helps clients spot patterns of thought and behavior, try new responses, and build clearer ways of relating to others. Mindfulness and motivational techniques are used to strengthen self-awareness and sustain progress.

Diane brings 12 years of counseling experience in Washington. She tailors sessions to each person’s needs, focusing on practical skills like problem solving, goal setting, and healthier choices. The aim is to reduce overwhelm and increase emotional capacity.

She emphasizes trauma-informed care when past hurt affects present feelings. Diane helps people connect the past to current struggles so they can make different decisions and form new, healthier connections.

How Diane's approaches translate to online care

The practice blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques and attachment-based ideas. Client-centered work means the therapist listens closely, follows the person's pace, and helps them name what matters. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new actions to reduce anxiety and depression. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people form steadier connections.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Diane will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and the issues they bring. That planning can change over time as needs and priorities shift.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, shorten commute time, and allow quick check-ins when needed. They also let people use mindfulness practices and behavioral experiments between meetings to maintain progress.