- Live chat sessions
- Solution-focused work
- Motivational interviewing
About Diamond
Diamond Marie Thaxton is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with seven years of clinical experience based in New York. She focuses on relationship concerns, addictions, and life changes, and lists life purpose among her areas of work. Diamond uses a direct, solution-focused style and offers live chat sessions as her primary way to meet with clients.
Her practice centers on short-term goals and practical steps. She gives assignments between sessions to help people build new habits and track progress. That structure is meant for people who want concrete strategies over open-ended talk. It can suit those juggling busy schedules who prefer focused check-ins.
Diamond often works with relationship challenges such as infidelity, communication problems, and intimacy-related issues. She also supports people facing substance and behavioral addictions, low self-esteem, depression, and struggles around identity and isolation. Life transitions and questions about purpose are part of her practice as well.
The approaches she uses include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused Therapy. In practice that means identifying unhelpful thinking, finding motivation for change, and setting small, achievable goals. She describes her manner as direct while still offering support during the work.
She welcomes people in many kinds of relationships, including kink-friendly and polyamorous dynamics, and can help those navigating dating after hurt. She does not take people in crisis or with severe mental health symptoms, and expects clients to be ready for solution-oriented work.
How her approaches guide online sessions
Diamond uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and shift thinking patterns that feed low mood or unhealthy behaviors. CBT here usually involves identifying specific thoughts, testing them, and practicing different responses over time.She also draws on Motivational Interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change. That approach focuses on building motivation, resolving mixed feelings, and strengthening commitment to small steps forward.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Diamond will discuss these methods with each person and decide together which fits best for the problem and the person's preferences. That collaborative decision helps shape goals and the assignments used between sessions.
Her stated session format is live chat. If you prefer a different format, confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and let clients review written guidance after a session. These practical benefits help integrate therapeutic work into everyday life without promising a specific outcome.
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Experience
7+ years
Listed in
New York, Washington
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she address?
She works with addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, self-esteem, coping with life changes, LGBT concerns, and depression. Life purpose and midlife questions are also listed as focus areas.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is direct and solution-focused, with practical assignments between sessions to build new habits. She emphasizes accountability and measurable steps.
How much experience does she have?
She has seven years of experience as a clinician working on relationship concerns and addictions along with mood and purpose-related issues.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with WA LMHC LH and NY LMHC credential listings, and she practices out of New York.
In what languages can sessions be held?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she work with international clients?
International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are used?
Her biography specifies live chat sessions as her chosen modality; confirm current session options before booking.
How do fees and getting started work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger, use the crisis numbers.