About Diane
Diane Henning is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) practicing in Illinois with 15 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, and a wide range of interpersonal and life concerns.
Background and approach
She creates an affirming, compassionate environment where clients can explore identity, communication challenges, and emotional well-being while working toward practical coping and personal growth. Diane blends evidence-informed methods with a person-centered philosophy to tailor care to each individual’s needs.
Her background includes work with grief, relationship and family issues, parenting concerns, career transitions, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue, as well as a broad set of additional focus areas such as attachment issues, adoption and foster care, chronic illness and disability, and kink-aware care.
She emphasizes collaboration, respectfully meeting people where they are and supporting them through recovery, change, and self-discovery.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify personal values and take committed steps toward a meaningful life while learning to relate differently to difficult thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. Mindfulness-based work emphasizes present-moment awareness and self-compassion to support emotion regulation and stress management.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Diane partners with each client to assess needs, goals, and preferences, and then blends techniques from these methods so the plan feels practical and personally relevant. Clients and therapist adjust the focus over time as progress and priorities evolve.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and communication styles. These formats make it possible to continue consistent care while fitting sessions into busy lives, supporting accessibility and ongoing momentum toward therapeutic goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- 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
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English