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Diane Petrella is a licensed clinical social worker, holistic psychotherapist, and life coach in Providence, RI. She is the author of Healing Emotional Eating for Trauma Survivors: Trauma-Informed Practices to Nurture a Peaceful Relationship with Your Emotions, Body, and Food.
Diane has an expertise in working with adults who experienced childhood trauma and struggle with emotional eating and other effects of early trauma. She also works with clients navigating stress, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, and relationship challenges. She helps clients explore how early experiences influence their beliefs about themselves in order to increase self-confidence and build stronger relationships.
Diane incorporates a range of approaches, including psychodynamic therapy, meditation and visualization, life coaching strategies, and energy psychology techniques such as the Emotional Freedom Technique (also called tapping). Diane’s mind-body-spirit approach is designed to help clients connect with their inner wisdom as the pathway to become their highest and best self.
Relationship challenges - Difficulty starting relationships; resolving unhelpful patterns of communication; feeling unsatisfied in your partnership; adjusting to divorce or breakups
Self-esteem - Tapping into inner strengths to foster a positive view of one's self; exploring how early experiences influence self-image
Mind-body-spirit connection - Assists clients in strengthening their mind-body-sprit connection
Anxiety - Generalized anxiety, social anxiety, panic attacks
Depression - Sleep and energy disruption, overall mood disturbance, inability to enjoy yourself, and difficulty being motivated, amongst many other symptoms
Sexual abuse - Healing childhood trauma and addressing its ongoing role in daily life, particularly as it relates to weight management
Emotional eating - Healthy approaches to losing weight and promoting positive body image; particular expertise in addressing how one's past history of sexual abuse can get in the way of weight loss efforts today
Life transitions - Adjusting to, or contemplating big life transitions such as career changes and relationship shift
Grief and loss - Processing the loss of a loved one or any form of grief
Stress management - Mind-body-spirit approach to releasing stress and decluttering the mind; particular expertise in caregiver expertise
Life coaching - Find solutions to problems you’re experiencing right now or clarity about the direction of your life
Caregiver stress - Coping with anxiety, stress, fatigue, and burnout related to caring for a loved one; balancing the needs of others with one's own needs and health
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