About Dionne
Dionne Schmidt is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in North Carolina. She brings ten years of clinical experience to conversations about anxiety, stress, relationships, and parenting. Dionne works plainly and directly so people can make changes they notice in daily life.
She focuses on relationship and intimacy concerns alongside family and parenting challenges. Clients also seek her for anxiety, grief, depression, addiction, sleep problems, and career stress.
Background and approach
She helps people understand how patterns of communication and attachment shape their choices. Dionne uses practical tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and techniques rooted in attachment and emotion-focused work. Sessions include noticing unhelpful thoughts, practicing different ways of talking with loved ones, and trying small behavior changes between meetings.
The goal is clearer thinking and more reliable connection with others. Her style is collaborative. She treats clients as the expert on their own story and offers guidance to build on existing strengths.
Dionne aims to create a space where people can test new approaches, solve concrete problems, and recover from setbacks. She has experience addressing complicated topics like trauma, addiction, blended family challenges, and commitment or communication problems. Parents frustrated by parenting strain or people facing life transitions will find direct strategies and steady support in her approach.
Therapeutic approaches for online relationship and anxiety work
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationship patterns shape how people connect and react. It helps people who struggle with closeness, fear of rejection, or repeating unhelpful cycles in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to manage anxiety, shift negative thinking, and change behaviors that keep problems going. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and name emotions and learn new ways to respond in close relationships so connection and trust can grow.Choosing the right approach happens together. The therapist will listen to your goals and start with approaches that fit your needs, then adjust as you learn what works. That collaborative process makes it easier to try techniques and decide which tools help you reach clearer communication and less anxiety.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and exercises that benefit from seeing expressions. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or the client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, focused problem-solving, or ongoing support between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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