Diana Hoffman is a Licensed Professional Counselor, practicing at the Lightspring Counseling Center in Salem, Utah. She specializes in a trauma and abuse recovery, adolescent therapy, and equine therapy.
Diana has worked from the beginning of her practice in trauma recovery, and has also many years of experience working with adolescents in residential programs including wilderness programs, group homes, observation and Assessment, and lockdown facilities. She has helped teenagers and their families with issues including conduct disorder, anger, gang membership, violent behavior, stealing, drug and alcohol addiction, trauma, self-harming, dissociative disorders, attention-deficit disorder, family communication, and conflict resolution. Her resources with adolescents include training and experience in ropes courses, experiential therapies including initiative games and group problem solving, pet therapy (she owns a collie therapy dog) as well as equine-assisted psychotherapy (using horses), sand tray, and a wide range of brain-based trauma release techniques. Diana has a cooperative relationship with BX ranch and does equine therapy in partnership with equine specialist Carissa McNamara.
As a trauma specialist Diana focuses on and continually pursues training and research in the neuropsychology of trauma. She has studied a variety of trauma theories and approaches, focused around the works of such leading-edge trauma researchers as neurologist Robert Scaer, child psychiatrist Bruce Perry, child trauma specialist Dr. Peter Levine, and John and Helen Watkins. Diana’s trauma therapy approaches are directed towards rapid release of brain-stem based trauma core symptoms. To this end she employs techniques from Inner Child work, Emotional Freedom Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, Ego State Therapy, specialized guided imagery, Faith-Based therapy, and Timeline Therapy. With these resources Diana treats individuals who have trauma resulting from childhood sexual abuse, spouse abuse, physical and emotional abuse, domestic violence, rape, disasters, bullying, auto accidents, grief, loss, family dysfunction and family addiction.
Diana works with couples and families to offer improved communication and interpersonal relationships, better conflict resolution, and advanced parenting skills for difficult situations.
Diana is the owner and founder of Lightspring Counseling and can be reached at 801 735 7814, or by email at healingtalkradio@gmail.com
Hi Dianna,
Loved your Christmas letter, but mostly about you and your work. I have a dear friend who you might be interested in getting to know. I have sent her some of your information as well. Her name is Wendy Ulrich. She writes books, began Sixteen Stones, writes for Dessret News, lectures, and does training and seminars. Smart lady like you. Bet you’d hit it off and have some fun together blessing lives. Maybe you can work together somewhere along the line. John
Thank you John. I did connect with the Sixteenstones website. I am always excited to find more colleagues who are advancing the awareness of how much healing is possible. Wendy does a very nice job in her integration of therapy and spirituality.
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