About Diana:
Addiction, abuse and trauma are viewed as symptoms rather than defining characteristics. I seek an approach to recovery that embraces positive, proactive, sustainable change. My clients are successful, highly motivated individuals who find that certain areas of life are becoming unmanageable.
A holistic, proactive, client-centered model equips individuals to manage their out-of-control behaviors. The choices others make often dramatically impact our world. We have no control over our circumstances, only our reactions. Adopting a positive perspective and bringing life into balance, facilitates the restoration of wholeness and health.
Change occurs through crisis, chance or choice. Conscious choice brings constructive, sustainable change. I help you focus on re-narrating negative thoughts, redefining formative relationships, restoring a healthy self-identity and regaining an emotional, physical, and spiritual balance. My goal is to accurately assess then offer personalized, safe, therapeutic interventions.
Specializing in trauma, betrayal, abuse, sexual addictions, multiple addictions, sex/porn addicts, partners of sex addicts, and PTSD, I have trained under Dan Allender at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology, earning an Advanced Counseling Certificate (a year-long addendum to my master’s degree) in trauma-focused narrative therapy for working with abuse victims. I have trained under Patrick Carnes at the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP) and hold the credentials CSAT-S® (Certified Sex Addiction Therapist Supervisor) and CPTT-S® (Certified Partner Trauma Therapist Supervisor). This was a 3-year, post-graduate process that included more than 250 seated hours of instruction and more than 50 hours of direct supervision from a certified therapist. IITAP is setting the industry standard in addiction education. Practitioners have premier training and cutting-edge educational resources to treat people with addictive and compulsive sexual behaviors and multiple addictions. The CSAT® program is one of the most highly regarded programs of its kind.
I hold a Doctor of Counseling and a Master’s of Arts in Counseling.
