Vignettes of Healing Through Therapy

Walking in Backwards: Vignettes of Healing Through Therapy delivers readers into the therapist’s office. 

By creating character composites and changing identifying information, author Diane Mote protects her clients’ identities while illuminating their personal struggles with issues that include grief, depression, obsession, anger, and abuse. 

Readers witness the therapeutic process in eighteen vignettes featuring clients that range in age from four-years-old to adult.

“Through her clients’ personal anecdotes, Ms. Mote provides a view into the complexity of human interaction,” writes David Weinstock, J.D., Ph.D., “This book is a wonderful resource for anyone hoping to better understand human relationships.”

Mote says that she “wrote the book hoping that readers would identify with the life stories of my clients, causing them to reflect on their own lives.  My therapeutic goal has always been to help my clients find peace with the past and hope for their future.  I want the same thing for my readers.” 

Even though Walking in Backwards is written in easily understandable language for general audiences, it appeals to psychology professionals as well.  Arizona State University Professor Emeritus Jeffrey McWhirter, Ph.D., ABPP, has assigned the book to graduate students in his pre-practicum class in ASU’s Counseling Psychology Program.  “This book is especially important because it conveys in a very poignant way why many of us got into and stay in this field,” his course syllabus says.

Holding Masters degrees in both Counseling and Special Education from ASU, Mote’s 25 year career in the field of Early Childhood Development includes over a decade in private practice where she counsels adults as well as children.  She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Nationally Certified Counselor, a member of the American Counseling Association, and a Mentor/Volunteer for Arizona Quest for Kids.

She lives in Phoenix with her husband and their dog, Isis.  Their two grown daughters have both pursued degrees in Psychology.

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