About Dianna
Dianna Privitt helps people facing addictions, relationship struggles, family conflict, trauma and abuse, grief, anxiety, depression, and stress. She also supports concerns around intimacy, self-esteem, parenting strain, eating and sleeping problems, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Dianna names compassion fatigue among her focus areas as well. Dianna Privitt is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California.
Her approach aims to create an open space where people can talk without feeling judged. Sessions are conversational and focused on what matters most to the person sitting across from her.
She listens for patterns in relationships and behavior and helps clients notice what gets in the way of the changes they want. Dianna draws on a mix of practical methods.
She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and make choices that match those values. Attachment-based ideas guide work on trust and closeness in relationships.
She also uses client-centered and emotionally-focused techniques to validate feelings and strengthen emotional connection. Existential ideas support people wrestling with life meaning, loss, or big transitions.
Over time, Dianna combines these approaches to fit each person’s goals and pace. With six years of professional experience, she focuses on steady, real-world steps clients can take between sessions.
The tone in her practice is supportive and straightforward, aimed at helping people build coping skills and move toward more fulfilling daily life.
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Dianna commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy when working online. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. Attachment-Based Therapy centers on how early relationship patterns affect current trust and closeness, and it helps people change how they connect with others. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dianna collaborates with each client to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts the focus as the client's needs shift so therapy stays useful and relevant. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues for conversations that mirror in-person sessions. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is low or for a focused check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, processing between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and reach care from different locations.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English