Quaternion Hermitian diagonalization

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How do I go about diagonalizing such a matrix.

For example let $D$ be the quaternion algebra over $\mathbb{Q}$ with $i^2 = -1, j^2 = -11$ and take the matrix:

$A = \begin{pmatrix} 11 & -j-3k \\ j+3k & 11 \end{pmatrix}$.

How do I find $P\in$ $GL_2(D)$ such that $\bar{P}^T A P$ is diagonal? Does the non-commutativity create problems with the usual construction?