About Dionna
Dionna Smith-Johnson is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. Her practical, down-to-earth style aims to make small steps feel possible.
She centers sessions on each person’s lived experience and values. That means listening first, then shaping a plan that fits the client’s day-to-day life. Conversations often include improving communication and coping skills people can use right away.
Background and approach
Dionna combines client-centered methods with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy. Client-centered work emphasizes empathy and understanding to help people feel heard. Cognitive behavioral techniques focus on spotting patterns of thought and testing small behavioral changes.
She also draws on experience helping people facing addiction, caregiver stress, family problems, and challenges like isolation, guilt, or obsessiveness. Sessions may include practical strategies for managing cravings, building routine, or improving problem-solving. People come for help with things such as communication breakdowns, life purpose questions, end-of-life concerns, or the fallout from infidelity and domestic violence.
Dionna aims to support clearer thinking and steadier emotions through individualized work. With three years of clinical experience, she offers focused, empathetic support and helps clients set realistic goals. Her approach is collaborative and respectful, helping people take manageable steps toward feeling more in control.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy emphasizes empathetic listening and meeting each person where they are. Online sessions using this approach focus on understanding the client’s perspective, building rapport, and helping clients name their concerns before choosing steps to change them.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, is goal-oriented and practical. In virtual sessions CBT looks at unhelpful thinking patterns and tests small, realistic behavior changes. This can help with anxiety, mood problems, obsessions, or coping with life transitions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with clients to decide which methods fit best based on needs, goals, and preferences. That plan can change over time as progress is made and priorities shift.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions are lower-bandwidth and can be easier on busy days. Live chat or text can work for brief check-ins, homework, or quick coping tools between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a hectic life while still working on meaningful change.
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What this therapist works with
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- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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