Diana Ingram

Diana Ingram is a counsellor credentialed with PACFA and has 22 years of professional experience. She centres her work on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and family concerns. Diana aims to make the first step easier by offering steady support and practical direction.

She works with individuals, couples, children and adolescents and has experience with people from First Nations communities, migrants, neurodiverse people and gender-diverse clients. Diana believes clients are the experts in their own stories and draws on their strengths to find workable changes.

Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. Sessions focus on what is useful now and on simple strategies that can be tried between meetings. She pays attention to family background and attachment patterns when those issues are central to a person's difficulties.

Diana uses methods from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help with unhelpful thoughts and avoidant patterns. She also uses client-centred methods to build a trusting, respectful space where people can talk through hard things.

People contact Diana when they feel stuck by relationship problems, parenting strain, grief, depression or isolation and loneliness. She helps with communication problems, commitment issues and the fallout of separation or infidelity. Her work can also include managing chronic illness, pain and the emotions that follow trauma.

Practical steps in sessions include naming patterns, setting small goals and practising new ways of responding. Diana supports each person to find responses that fit their life and values.

How these approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and practise small steps in that direction, which is useful for anxiety, loneliness and feeling stuck. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and can help with trust, communication and relationship stress. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviours to reduce anxiety and low mood.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss your needs, goals and preferences and together you will try ways that feel useful. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions so the approach fits you rather than forcing a single method.

Please confirm available session formats before booking, as the profile does not list specific options. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel, allow shorter check-ins when time is tight, and make speaking with a therapist possible from different locations. These practical benefits can help people maintain momentum while testing new responses in everyday life.