Diane Bigler is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Missouri and Kansas.  She has over 15 years of experience in the social services field.  Her experience includes working with children, adolescents, adults, and families.  Diane has professional experience in the areas of early intervention, case management, foster care, therapy, and mental health administration. 

In addition to her private practice, Diane also provides in-home social work services in the early intervention field to families of children under the age of three who have a developmental disability.  Diane has been providing in-home social services for the length of her career, and has a special passion for working with families of young children in the natural environment: the home.

Diane is currently an Adjunct Professor and Field Liaison with School of Social Welfare at The University of Kansas.  She has great energy for teaching and thoroughly enjoys working with students.   

Diane provides extensive mental health trainings in the Kansas City area to various mental health professionals, early childhood intervention specialists, and community agencies.  Some of the topics that Diane has provided training on include:  depression, PTSD, domestic violence, substance abuse, stress management, and grief and loss.  Diane has received superb evaluations for the trainings that she has provided to individuals in the community.

Diane is proud to be a social worker and embraces the core philosophies of social work: empowerment, compassion, worth of the person, and a strengths-based approach.

Diane is married with one child and has been a resident of the Northland in Kansas City for the past 10 years.