Diane McCollum, LPC, LMFT

Diane McCollum is a licensed professional counselor and licensed marriage and family therapist with 20 years of experience. She has worked in a range of settings and supports adults and children who are facing hard transitions. Diane emphasizes respect, clear communication, and firm boundaries in the therapy relationship.

Her approach grows out of personal experience with counseling, which shaped how she views change. She tends to see people as stuck in a life transition rather than broken. That outlook guides how she listens and responds in sessions.

Diane brings a family-systems perspective alongside a warm, compassionate stance. She blends humanist and spiritual sensibilities with practical techniques to help people set goals and move toward them. She often helps clients understand how past trauma or abuse may influence present choices and feelings.

She works with a wide range of concerns, including trauma, grief, depression, anxiety, stress, self-esteem, parenting and relationship challenges. Her practice also highlights aging and geriatric issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and cancer-related concerns.

Sessions focus on collaboration. Diane encourages clients to define their own treatment goals and treats therapy as a learning process for both people in the room. She aims to reflect clients' experiences and offer steady guidance as they try new ways of coping and relating.

How Diane's approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on nonjudgmental listening and empathy so clients can find their own answers; it supports self-esteem and personal growth. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is practical and problem-focused, helping people spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety or depression.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Diane will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and preferences. She treats therapy as a shared process and will adjust techniques as progress and needs change.

If you are interested in online sessions, confirm the specific session formats before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also gives therapists ways to use mindfulness exercises, behavioral experiments, and values-based planning across sessions so clients can practice skills between meetings.