Diana Gunner
Warm counsellor for stress and life changes
About Diana
Diana Gunner is a BACP-registered counsellor with four years' experience. She aims to make the first step into therapy easier and less daunting. Diana listens without judgement and helps people find words for what feels hard to name.
She supports people with stress, anxiety, depression and low self-esteem. She also works with trauma and abuse, grief, relationship difficulties, eating and parenting concerns, anger, ADHD and coping with big life changes.
Background and approach
Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, fertility and baby loss, blended family stresses, cancer and caregiver strain. Diana adapts each session to the person in front of her. She draws on client-centred ways of working to follow what matters most to the client.
She also uses elements of psychodynamic thinking to look at repeated patterns and solution-focused ideas to find practical next steps. Sessions are typically short term, often around six meetings, and can be shaped to suit individual needs. People can expect a warm, open space where they are treated with respect.
Diana emphasises small, achievable changes alongside deeper reflection. Her approach is straightforward and practical. She helps people develop coping strategies, explore difficult feelings and consider fresh options.
Diana aims to walk alongside clients as they work towards clearer thinking and more manageable day-to-day life.
What Diana works with
How Diana works
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Listed by Diana among the ways they work.
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Sessions & fees
How Diana's approaches work online
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening closely and following what matters most to the person. In practice this means the therapist mirrors concerns back, asks gentle questions and helps clients find their own solutions; it can help with low self-esteem, anxiety and life decisions.Psychodynamic therapy looks at patterns that repeat over time and where they might come from. Online sessions using this approach can help people understand recurring relationships, emotional reactions and long-standing distress so they can make different choices in the present.
Finding the right way of working is part of therapy. Diana will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and what feels helpful. Together they choose which approaches to try and adjust them as the work progresses so the plan fits changing needs.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls let people use visual connection for deeper conversation, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for a shorter check-in and text-based messaging supports regular reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility so people can keep therapy going around work, family and travel.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
