About Dianne
Dianne Smith is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 43 years of clinical experience. She takes a straightforward, practical approach in sessions and focuses on teaching skills people can use right away. Her style mixes direct feedback with kindness and respect to help clients make changes that matter.
She emphasizes learning and skill-building. That can mean practicing ways to manage stress and anxiety, building tools for mood shifts, or developing strategies for coping with life changes.
Background and approach
She listens to each person’s goals and tailors the work to what they believe will help them most. Dianne has long experience in trauma-informed care, cognitive behavioral approaches, dialectical strategies, mindfulness, solution-focused work, and trauma-focused methods. She uses these to offer concrete techniques and to help people understand patterns that keep them stuck.
Her goal is to help people move forward when life feels blocked. In sessions she often combines teaching with hands-on practice. That might include skill coaching, short experiments to try between sessions, and straightforward talk about next steps.
She frames therapy as a partnership where both people work together toward clear goals. People come to her for a range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and parenting challenges, grief, addiction issues, ADHD, and trauma-related concerns. She works from Idaho and conducts sessions in English.
Online approaches that teach skills and build resilience
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. It emphasizes practical tools people can use to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change patterns that cause distress.Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, brings skills for managing strong emotions and improving how people cope when they feel overwhelmed. It often includes techniques for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication.
Dianne also uses trauma-focused and mindfulness-based methods to help people process difficult experiences and build steady attention to the present moment. These approaches can reduce reactivity and support recovering from past hurts.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. She works together with each person to choose methods that match their goals and values, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made. That collaborative decision-making helps keep therapy focused and practical.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for skill practice and guided exercises. Phone sessions can fit a short break in a busy day or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, tracking progress, and getting support between longer sessions. These options help make regular therapy easier to schedule and keep moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 43 years
- Licensed
- Idaho
- Languages
- English
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