Dianna Privitt
Compassionate therapy for relationship and life challenges
LMFT California
- Experience
- 6 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Addictions, Relationship, Family
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English
About Dianna
Dianna Privitt is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage addictions, relationship and family struggles, trauma and abuse, grief, anxiety, and stress.
Background and approach
She also supports concerns like parenting strain, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, mood disorders such as depression and bipolar, and issues that affect self-esteem. Dianna offers a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through painful experiences and begin to make changes.
She emphasizes practical steps alongside emotional understanding. Sessions focus on clear goals, small experiments to try between appointments, and building skills for handling difficult moments.
Dianna uses approaches that center on emotions and relationships to help people feel heard and understood while learning new ways to respond.
Her work draws from the Gottman Method to address relationship patterns, from Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early bonds shape present reactions, and from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take meaningful action. She also uses client-centered and emotionally-focused techniques to keep the session collaborative and grounded in what matters to each person.
Dianna holds a California licensed marriage and family therapist credential - LMFT - and brings six years of professional experience. She sees clients in California and works with adults facing a wide range of life challenges.
Her style is straightforward, compassionate, and practical. People who choose to work with her can expect respectful listening, clear suggestions for change, and encouragement to try new ways of relating and coping.
She supports clients as they build habits that fit their goals and everyday life.
Approaches for relationships and personal growth online
Dianna uses the Gottman Method to look at how partners interact and to teach skills for managing conflict and increasing connection. Gottman-informed work focuses on communication habits, reducing negative cycles, and building positive shared moments.She also draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people identify their values and take small actions that align with those values even when emotions are difficult. Attachment-Based Therapy is used to understand how early relationship patterns shape reactions now and to develop more supported ways of relating.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, needs, and preferences and together decide which methods to emphasize. Plans can be adjusted as therapy progresses to match what is working and what isn’t.
Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging helps with ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and daily life.
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Experience
6+ years
Licensed in
California
Languages
English