About Diane
Diane Shrock-Wang greets people with a calm, practical style. She focuses on what people are trying to solve now and helps them find clearer ways forward.
Background and approach
Diane listens for patterns that keep causing pain and helps build simple tools to change them. She draws on 35 years of clinical experience as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, combining several approaches to fit each person.
Sessions often cover stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, grief, addictions, and life transitions. Diane also supports people with parenting concerns, body image, career stress, and attachment-related issues.
In sessions she uses straightforward conversation, skill-building, and reflective listening. People can expect guidance on practical coping strategies and chances to examine how past experiences shape current choices.
Diane helps clients practice new ways of communicating and managing strong emotions. When trauma or painful memories come up, she uses methods that gently process those experiences while keeping the client’s pace in mind.
Work around intimacy, abandonment, blended family issues, or adoption and foster care focuses on understanding patterns and creating healthier interaction habits. Diane aims to make therapy feel useful and manageable.
She helps people set clear, realistic goals and tracks progress over time. Her California practice emphasizes steady, compassionate support for adults navigating change and rebuilding connection.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early connections shape current relationships. It helps people notice repeating patterns in attachment and build more supported ways of relating to others. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own experience and rhythm; the therapist listens closely and follows the client’s lead to encourage self-understanding and growth. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors together and teaches practical tools to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and change unhelpful habits.Diane treats the choice of approach as a collaborative process. She will discuss options and adapt methods to match the client’s needs, goals, and comfort level. Together they decide which techniques to try first and check in regularly about what’s helping.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people meet. Video calls let most of the face-to-face experience continue at a distance. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging can work for shorter check-ins, brief skill practice, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into workdays, caregiving schedules, or busy lives while still using the same therapeutic approaches described above.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English