Diane Shrock-Wang, LMFT
Experienced therapist blending body and talk work
About Diane
Diane Shrock-Wang is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 35 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, or big life changes. Diane focuses on practical steps people can use day to day to feel steadier and more in control.
Her work blends talk-based therapy with body-centered ideas from somatic therapy. She pays attention to both thoughts and physical sensations.
Background and approach
That combination can help when anxiety, trauma, or grief feel stuck in the body as well as the mind. Diane also uses attachment-based and client-centered approaches to create a calm, respectful space. Sessions aim to deepen self-understanding and strengthen emotional connection with others.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used when clients want concrete strategies for managing symptoms and changing patterns. She has particular experience supporting people with parenting stress, workplace pressures, compassion fatigue, addiction concerns, and identity-related challenges including LGBT issues. Diane has worked with many adults through career shifts, divorce, and caregiving strains over the years.
Diane holds a California license as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, CA LMFT 33832. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps connect people to scheduling and next steps.
How Diane’s Approaches Fit Online Therapy
Somatic-informed work focuses on how the body holds stress and emotion. In online sessions Diane helps people notice breathing, posture, and physical sensations and uses gentle practices to release tension and increase bodily awareness. This can be useful for anxiety, trauma-related symptoms, and chronic stress.Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships shape patterns today. Diane helps clients track how they connect, set boundaries, and respond to closeness and distance in relationships. Client-centered work means sessions are paced around the person’s needs, with the therapist listening closely and following the client’s goals.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Diane works collaboratively to identify which methods will fit a person’s goals and comfort level. She may mix somatic techniques, attachment work, and practical CBT tools depending on symptoms and preferences.
Online formats offer flexibility for people with busy schedules or caregiving duties. Video calls let the therapist and client see nonverbal cues, while phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging provide alternatives when video isn’t possible. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care and use therapeutic tools in daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English