Diane Critchlow

Diane Critchlow has provided counseling and psychotherapy to individuals, couples, and families in Washington for twelve years. She works with people facing a range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-esteem difficulties, depression, coping with life changes, relationship issues, family conflicts, career challenges, and compassion fatigue.

Her therapeutic style is warm, interactive, non-judgmental, and sensitive. Diane supports clients as they work through depression and anxiety, and she offers practical skills for addressing relationship challenges, parenting concerns, emotional abuse, childhood trauma, career transitions, forming healthier connections, making better life choices, and responding more effectively to internal dissonance.

Diane integrates cognitive behavioral techniques, compassion-focused approaches, psychodynamic perspectives, and rational-emotive therapy into her work. She tailors sessions to each person’s unique needs to help increase their capacity to mitigate life issues and achieve meaningful change.

Her practice is trauma-informed and incorporates past traumatic exposure to help clients understand current emotional and mental disturbances. She honors the courage it takes to pursue a happier, more fulfilling life and to confront patterns that no longer serve someone. Diane walks alongside clients as they take first steps toward change, assisting with problem solving, setting new life goals, and building the life they long for.

She holds a Washington state license to practice as a mental health counselor (WA LMHC LH61026176) and looks forward to hearing clients' stories and working with them.