Diane Langston-Schicker, LMFT
Understanding therapy for relationships and life changes
About Diane
Diane Langston-Schicker is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in Florida with 27 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are coping with depression, anxiety, stress, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Diane emphasizes practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier and more in control. Her work often focuses on relationship dynamics and communication.
She helps clients sort through intimacy concerns, grief, and issues around self-esteem and boundaries. Diane also supports people dealing with addiction, sleep or eating problems, and career stress.
Diane blends approaches so sessions fit the person. She draws on attachment-focused ideas to look at relational patterns and uses client-centered listening to follow what matters most to each person.
She may also include cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and EMDR for trauma recovery when appropriate. Sessions are practical and collaborative.
Diane helps people build skills for coping with anger, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related struggles, and caregiving stress. She also addresses more specific concerns such as adoption and foster care, body image, and commitment worries.
People meet Diane for a mix of short-term problem-solving and longer work on identity and healing. She welcomes international clients and offers flexible session formats.
The goal is steady progress that matches each person’s pace and priorities.
Approaches used online and how they help
Diane commonly draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at repeating relationship patterns and improve emotional connection. This approach helps people understand why they react a certain way in close relationships and supports healthier ways of relating.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers the person’s own goals and pace. Sessions that follow this approach focus on listening and reflecting so people can make their own changes with support.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Diane will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then choose methods together. That collaborative approach means plans can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls are useful for face-to-face interaction when discussing emotions and body language. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief updates, ongoing coaching, or when someone prefers writing to talk. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different time zones.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- 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
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English