Dianna Zuniga
Supportive clinician for family and parenting
- Credentials
- LISW, LCSW
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed in
- California, Ohio
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Dianna
Dianna Zuniga is a Licensed Independent Social Worker and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker based in California. She focuses on family and parenting concerns among a broader set of issues like stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and depression. Dianna speaks English and Spanish and brings over two decades of professional experience to sessions.
She aims to create a warm, respectful space where people can begin to sort through hard feelings and everyday pressures.
Background and approach
Dianna uses straightforward, evidence-informed tools to help people name problems and practice concrete skills. She draws from cognitive behavioral therapy to shift unhelpful thinking and from dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Mindfulness and solution-focused techniques are woven into sessions to support practical changes between meetings.
Her background includes work in mental health clinics, substance use settings, and both public and personal schools. That range has shaped a flexible approach to different life situations and family dynamics. In sessions she meets people where they are and focuses on strategies that can be used right away.
Dianna emphasizes collaboration. She works with clients to set goals and choose the techniques that fit their needs. The emphasis is on building skills, reducing overwhelm, and finding realistic, step-by-step ways to move forward.
People who want a compassionate, skill-based partner for parenting or family-related stress may find her style practical and clear. She aims to help clients gain insight, reduce symptoms, and practice tools that support lasting change.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Dianna frequently uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT helps people break cycles of worry, low mood, and avoidance by practicing new ways of thinking and acting. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy to teach skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress in the moment.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to review goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped before. Together they try techniques and adjust the plan so it fits the client’s needs and daily life rather than forcing a single method.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit visits into busy schedules. These formats allow for regular check-ins, skill coaching between sessions, and flexible ways to review progress. Many people find remote work helpful for maintaining continuity and practicing new skills in the environments where they live and parent.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- California, Ohio
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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