Our Founder

Dianne has over 24 years of clinical, supervision, consultation, and training experience. She currently works with children, as young as two years old, and their families providing trauma-focused mental health services and Parenting Support Services at Merrimack Valley Trauma Services of South Carolina, and is also a consultant, trainer, and clinical supervisor for other providers within the Greater Charleston community. In 2012, she completed her first documentary, “Helping Until It Hurts,” and provides training to administrators, clinicians, nurses, shelter workers, teachers, daycare providers, child protective service workers, and other front-line staff on how to prevent vicarious trauma and trauma-sensitive work environments. Dianne is a Licensed Independent Social Worker and Supervisor and earned her Master’s degree in Social Work and Bachelor’s degree in Counseling Psychology. She is a Certified Early Intervention Specialist, has a Post-Masters Certification in the Treatment of Psychological Trauma from Boston University, and Certification in Child and Family Forensics from William James College. Dianne specializes in working with children, adolescents, and adults who have been impacted by trauma, utilizing Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Child-Parent Psychotherapy, Alternatives for Families-A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (AF-CBT), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), play therapy, and parent training approaches. She also serves as a mental health forensic evaluator, providing child sexual abuse and trauma evaluations and clinical recommendations to child protective services and the court.