Diane Langston-Schicker

Diane Langston-Schicker is a Florida licensed marriage and family therapist with 27 years of experience. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, stress, and difficult life transitions. Diane focuses on practical change and stronger day-to-day coping skills. Her work often centers on relationship patterns and emotional recovery from past hurt.

Clients can expect straightforward sessions that prioritize understanding what feels stuck and why. Diane uses a mix of approaches to suit different concerns, including attention to how attachments and past losses shape current behavior. She also draws on problem-focused tools to shift unhelpful thoughts and reactions.

Her background includes long experience supporting people through trauma, grief, addiction, and the strains of caregiving. Diane has worked with concerns ranging from parenting stress to intimacy and sexual identity issues. She names anger as one area she helps people address, along with sleeping and eating concerns, attention difficulties, and self-esteem struggles.

Diane describes her style as compassionate and tailored to each person. She aims to help clients build resilience and practical plans for change. Many clients come for help with communication struggles, decision points in career or relationships, and recovering from past wounds.

To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to therapist availability. Diane accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English.

Therapeutic approaches and working online

Diane often uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps people who notice repeating relationship problems or fear of abandonment. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and change unhelpful thought habits and behaviors, useful for anxiety, anger, and depression. In some cases she integrates Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to address traumatic memories that still cause strong reactions.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Diane will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest methods that match the concern. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Session logistics should be confirmed before booking because specific formats were not listed in the biography. Ask about the available online options when you schedule. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people try therapy from their everyday setting while working with an experienced licensed professional.