Welcome!

As a psychotherapist practicing psychoanalysis, I believe that when you speak and are truly heard, your words can express your truth in your own time and manner, creating a voice that is uniquely yours.


 "Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair. ... Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's  and women's  actions." 
- Sigmund Freud


When you started your search, you opened yourself to the opportunity to explore other ways to manage and understand your questions, struggles and, suffering, as well as the possibility of change that may help you transforming the issues affecting your life and defining you. 

At the heart of my practice, I provide a safe and nonjudgemental space for my clients to speak freely, allowing them to transform themselves and redefine who they are. My approach is oriented by psychoanalysis, rooted in the unconscious, to help you transform and question what may appear to be the obstacles: overcoming anxiety, depression, anger, sexual identity issues, relational discord, parenting struggles, low self-esteem, job struggles, trauma, and sense of inadequacy.


Schedule an appointment: 

(925) 269-4200  -  diana@dianamartinddm


Psychoanalytic experience has rediscovered in man the imperative of the Word as the law that has shaped him in its image...the poetic function of language to give his desire its symbolic mediation. May this experience finally enable you to understand that the whole reality of its effects lies in the gift of speech...

– Écrits, 322 - Jacques Lacan