Diana Carter

My style is eclectic and strength based. I see human nature as intrinsically good. Sigmund Freud said we are bio-social animals. I believe a great deal in listening to one’s self talk. The more positive our dialogue with ourselves is, the more positive our dialogues with others and our lives are. I’m also experienced in CBT, DBT, MI, Solution Focused, ACT, Gestalt, Interpersonal, and person-centered counseling.

My training includes lots of wonderful supervision and workshops, a three-year certificate from the Gestalt Institute of Chicago, and two one month intensives with Virginia Satir, the founder of family therapy. Virginia taught that exploring the self is like mining gold. We all have gold inside of us. That is our basic goodness. A lot of emotional suffering is the result of being detoured from that basic goodness.

My experience includes individual, marital and family counseling for adult, teens and children age 12 and up with depression, anxiety, substance abuse, bereavement, other transitions, work, school, anger management, abuse, co-dependence, relationship, women’s, self-esteem, or spirituality issues.

I also have unique expertise, as a counselor and writer, in pro-choice crisis pregnancy counseling and post abortion counseling.

I welcome, and am excited to serve, people of all ethnicities, religious and spiritual beliefs, and sexual orientations. I especially appreciate our wonderful military veterans and first responders.

My experience goes back decades. I’ve been blessed to have clients encounter me by chance years after our work together and tell me I helped them turn their life around.

My hope is that clients leave sessions with me feeling more empowered.