Diana Norton , LCSW

Diana Norton is a licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship concerns. She practices in Indiana and offers practical, down-to-earth support for everyday struggles. Diana uses straightforward language and steady guidance to help people make real changes.

Diana focuses on emotional pain that affects daily life. She helps with sleep problems, addictions, eating concerns, anger, low self-esteem, and career stress. She also supports people facing trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and challenges related to ADHD and bipolar disorder.

Her work pays attention to relationship and intimacy issues. She assists with communication problems, commitment worries, codependency, and blended family dynamics. Diana also helps people cope with abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, and caregiver stress.

Diana draws on several practical approaches in session. She uses client-centered methods to follow a person's pace, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, and solution-focused ideas to set achievable goals. Sessions aim to be collaborative and goal-oriented.

People come to Diana for help with life transitions and chronic challenges such as chronic illness, cancer, or aging concerns. She works with LGBT clients and addresses body image and attachment issues. Her style emphasizes steady support, clear tools, and helping people build coping skills they can use outside sessions.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Client-centered therapy focuses on following the client's lead and creating space to talk through what's most pressing. It helps people who need steady listening, reflection, and support while they decide what to change.

Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood and actions. In practice this means identifying unhelpful thinking, testing new behaviors, and building skills for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping with life changes.

Diana will work together with each person to decide which approach or mix of approaches fits best. That process is collaborative - goals and techniques are chosen to match a person's needs, pace, and preferences rather than imposed from the start.

Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people read facial cues and use shared worksheets, phone sessions can be lower bandwidth or better for short check-ins, and live chat or text-based messaging can support ongoing reflection between sessions. These options offer flexibility so people can use the methods that suit their routine and comfort.