Diane Critchlow

Diane Critchlow is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with twelve years of experience. She combines a warm, interactive style with practical tools to help people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. Diane focuses on helping clients find clearer choices and calmer responses to difficult feelings.

Her approach blends mindfulness practices with client-centered listening and cognitive tools. She uses mindfulness to help people notice what’s happening in the moment. Cognitive strategies are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try more useful ways of thinking. Diane also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns.

Diane often works with people facing trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and family conflict. She helps with issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, blended family stress, and family-of-origin problems. Practical topics like career transitions, communication problems, and body image are also part of her practice.

Sessions emphasize collaboration and problem solving. Diane aims to help clients set realistic goals, practice new skills, and make daily choices that support emotional balance. She describes her style as non-judgmental and sensitive, matching techniques to each person’s needs.

Diane practices in Washington and holds a WA LMHC credential. Sessions are offered in English. If someone wants to begin, they can use the site’s Start Therapy button to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule time based on availability.

Mindfulness and practical approaches for online sessions

Diane uses mindfulness practices to help people build awareness of thoughts, feelings, and body sensations. Mindfulness techniques can help reduce reactivity and support calmer decision making when stress or strong emotions arise. Attachment-based work looks at patterns formed in early relationships and how those patterns show up now, which can help with communication and closeness issues.

She also uses client-centered methods that prioritize the person’s experience and goals. That approach focuses on listening, empathy, and working at the client’s pace. Choosing the right approach is a team effort - the therapist and client will discuss which methods fit the client’s needs and goals, and adjust as things change over time.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not listed in the biography. Many people find online therapy helps fit care into busy schedules by reducing travel time and making it easier to attend brief check-ins or regular weekly sessions. It can make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and other commitments, while allowing the therapist to use mindfulness and cognitive tools that translate well to remote work.