Diane McCollum
Compassionate therapist for family and parenting concerns
- Credentials
- LPC, LMFT
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Diane
Diane McCollum is a licensed professional counselor and licensed marriage and family therapist with 20 years of clinical experience. She works with adults and children on a wide range of concerns including trauma, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, and stress. Diane frames therapy as a collaborative effort where clients set goals and work toward practical change.
Her style is warm and direct. She brings a family systems perspective and a humanist-spiritual sensibility to sessions.
Background and approach
She values clear communication, firm boundaries, and mutual respect in the therapeutic relationship. Diane draws on several therapeutic approaches depending on what a person needs. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She also incorporates acceptance and mindfulness strategies to help people tolerate difficult emotions and act according to their values. She has guided many people through trauma and abuse recovery, helping them see how past experiences affect current patterns. Diane encourages clients to define their own treatment goals and helps them develop steps to meet those goals.
Sessions focus on practical tools and new perspectives. Diane aims to understand each person’s unique situation and to offer respectful feedback. Her work often addresses family and parenting concerns alongside individual symptoms and life transitions.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Diane uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people make changes in daily life. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors to see what works better. Acceptance and commitment therapy mixes acceptance of hard feelings with clear action toward personal values, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Diane will talk with each person about goals and preferences and adapt methods to fit those needs. She works with clients to set achievable steps and checks progress together as therapy moves forward.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy families and people spread across Texas. Video calls let participants use face-to-face conversation from home, while phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging provide alternatives for shorter check-ins or when schedules are tight. These options make it easier to keep regular contact and to apply new skills between sessions.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
Next step
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