Diana Magallón-Romero

Diana sees you as the expert on your life and invites you to collaborate in the therapeutic process. She may suggest creative or expressive interventions to work in the here-and-now, responding to your individual needs, resources, and challenges. She celebrates diversity and recognizes the impacts of intersecting non-dominant identities. She also knows that she will never stop learning.

Being alive means that we will experience pain, crave meaning, and eventually, confront death. It is normal, and even necessary, to experience anxiety in response. The question is whether this anxiety motivates us or paralyzes us. Diana believes our childhoods are important in shaping us, and our environments, experiences, and connections deeply influence us. However, she also believes we can change and grow. Problems arise when we are unable to feel a sense of agency in our lives, and it is through increased awareness that we can become better equipped to build the kind of life we want to lead and flourish into the kind of people we want to be.

What is most important to Diana in working with you is establishing a relationship that encourages trust, openness, willingness to experiment, and mutual learning. She will work from your perspective, at its funniest, its darkest, and its most turbulent, as an empathetic, calm, curious, and non-judgmental companion. Her most valuable evidence will be your ongoing feedback.

Diana offers individual counselling, with particular experience supporting clients through existential concerns, identity, and questions of purpose and spirituality. She works with clients from minority groups and those navigating marginalization, women’s concerns, and immigration and acculturation.

She also supports clients through life transitions, divorce and separation, and coping with injury or loss, alongside anxiety, depression, and high sensitivity. Diana’s work extends to chronic pain, body image, sleep concerns, and general health concerns, including support for geriatric clients. She also helps with career counselling, codependency, building self-compassion and assertiveness, boundaries, and work-life balance.

Diana’s approach draws on somatic therapies, humanistic approaches, and person-centered therapy, which keep sessions grounded in your own lived experience. She also incorporates Gestalt and existential therapy to explore deeper questions of meaning, alongside Observed Experiential Integration (OEI).

Diana sees clients in person at our Pitt Meadows Medical Clinic, Harris/122nd Ave location.