Dianne Holliday Fish, LPC, MA

I saw Dianne Fish for over a year roughly from August 2010 to October 2011. She is a wonderful therapist who is pragmatic, nurturing and supportive. I started seeing her upon ending a relationship, but stayed because there were a lot of life goals (although I didn’t realize it at the time) that I wanted to achieve for myself. I appreciate that she really listened to me and in some ways she felt like a life coach. My impression is she has traditional business hours, but I would meet her at 7pm because of my work schedule. There a certain number of times a month that she has later evening appointments for patients who need it.
How do you create the life you want? I think at times realizing that wish or wishes can be overwhelming, but Dianne really helped me think of it as small incremental goals to a bigger larger goal. There were many suggestions like this (common sense ones) that she made to me to remind me to create space for my professional and personal goals. Yeah sure you could do this on your own or with the support of your friends. But Dianne reminded me sometimes gently sometimes firmly in a way I or my friends can’t that I wanted these things for my life. She in my opinion acted as a more neutral third party that held me accountable.
Also worth mentioning is that she is a yoga teacher. She would often recommend breathing exercises (in part because of this background) to help me handle stressful situations. Its probably worth asking her about if you want to incorporate your yoga practice into therapy.
I feel like an infomercial :), but the following is true. With the help of Dianne, I accomplished several of the professional and personal goals I had for myself. Those big really important ones I wanted. Growth and self-​actualization of one’s life is an ongoing process, but Dianne helped me push through barriers to begin to create the life I want. And she also importantly left me with some great life skills for well handling life. :)
It was sad to end therapy with her (she’s a neat lady who I learned a lot from), but I felt that it was time to take the next steps on my own.
Oh yeah! One other thing — her office is located in a really neat area with lots of trees. It’s very Dianne and as I find a lot of peace being in a nature soothing to be in a office space that contains that.
I am more than happy to answer any questions about her, so feel free to message me.