Diane Sullivan
Compassionate person-centred counselling for life changes
About Diane
Diane Sullivan is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with six years of professional experience. She uses a person-centred approach and aims to create a respectful, sensitive space for people facing difficult life changes. Diane meets clients where they are and adapts sessions to individual needs and goals.
She often supports people dealing with relationship breakdowns, separation and divorce, infidelity, and family conflict. Diane also helps with anxiety, depression and low mood, grief and bereavement, and the stress that comes with major life events.
Background and approach
Addictions, compassion fatigue and work-related strain are within her day-to-day practice as well. Her wider focus includes challenges such as attachment and abandonment issues, body image and intimacy-related concerns, and experiences linked to chronic illness or pain. She is experienced in conversations around alternative sex culture including BDSM and kink, and practical struggles like parenting strain, sleep and eating problems.
Diane also works with people affected by trauma and abuse, dissociation, and emotional emptiness. Diane believes the therapeutic relationship matters most. She listens without judgement and encourages people to set the pace and focus for sessions.
Practical themes such as communication, boundaries and coping strategies are explored alongside deeper emotional work. Sessions are tailored to each person’s situation. Diane explains options clearly and supports people to try different ways of managing problems.
She frames therapy as a collaborative process aimed at clearer thinking and steadier daily routines.
What Diane works with
How Diane works
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Sessions & fees
Person-centred care and online sessions
Diane works from a client-centred perspective that puts the person's experience at the heart of sessions. This approach focuses on listening, empathy and responding to what the client says, helping people feel heard and understood while they make decisions about change.The person-centred method is well suited to relationship issues, grief, low mood and anxiety because it prioritises the therapeutic relationship and personal pacing. It also supports work on attachment, self-esteem, and coping with illness or life transitions by allowing the client to guide the topics explored.
Finding the right style of therapy is part of the process and Diane approaches this collaboratively. She will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, try different ways of working if needed, and agree together how progress will be judged and reviewed.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues are helpful. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help people access counselling around work, family life and other commitments.
| 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
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
