Diana Hartwig
Practical support for stress and grief
- Credentials
- LISW
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed in
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Diana
Diana Hartwig is an independently licensed social worker in Ohio who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and other life changes. She uses a down-to-earth style and aims to make conversations feel straightforward and useful. Parents and adults looking for practical support often find her approach direct and respectful.
Diana holds the LISW credential, which stands for Licensed Independent Social Worker. Her sessions focus on what a person needs right now.
Background and approach
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and on mindfulness to strengthen coping skills. Motivational interviewing and narrative methods also appear in her work to build motivation and make sense of difficult experiences. Diana has six years of clinical experience and completed a Master of Social Work degree.
That background helped her develop particular experience with grief and loss, along with a range of mental health concerns such as depression, trauma, and adjustment issues. She keeps therapy practical and strengths-based. In a typical session she listens first, then helps set small goals.
Techniques are adjusted to a person's pace and preferences. The focus is on usable tools for day-to-day life rather than long technical explanations. To begin, she asks about the current problem and recent coping efforts.
From there she and the client plan short-term steps and long-term goals. Her aim is to offer support while helping people regain a sense of control and forward motion.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Diana uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change patterns of thinking and behavior that contribute to stress or low mood. CBT often focuses on specific, manageable skills and small experiments to try between sessions. She also integrates mindfulness practices to build present-moment coping and emotional regulation, using brief exercises that fit into busy days.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Diana treats the selection of methods as collaborative and tailors techniques to each person's needs, goals, and preferences. She typically begins by listening to current struggles and then suggests a mix of strategies to try, adjusting them based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around school, work, or caregiving duties and to use tools learned in sessions in everyday life. Diana uses these formats to keep therapy focused, goal-oriented, and responsive to each person's schedule and comfort.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
Next step
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