About Dianna
Dianna Roland-Sumlin is a licensed clinical social worker with 14 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She practices in Florida and uses straightforward, practical methods to help clients take the next step. Dianna speaks English and brings a calm, focused style to sessions.
She combines client-centered methods with cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and build new coping skills. Dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness practices are often used to teach emotion regulation and reduce reactivity.
How Dianna works
Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or uncertain about change. Dianna has worked with people facing relationship strain, family problems, grief, trauma and abuse, and issues around self-esteem and identity. She also supports those dealing with anger, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and career or life-purpose concerns.
Additional focuses include attachment and abandonment wounds, communication problems, codependency, guilt and shame, and feelings of emptiness. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented. Dianna helps people set clear steps and practices they can use between meetings.
She uses brief exercises, gentle reflection, and skill coaching so change feels doable over time. For someone worried about big emotions or a major life shift, she offers steady, straightforward care that emphasizes real-world strategies. The approach is collaborative - clients and Dianna work together to find what helps best.
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What Dianna works with
The areas below are the ones Dianna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. Online sessions use reflective conversation and open questions to help clients name their priorities and decide what to work on next.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with practical strategies. In remote sessions this often looks like brief worksheets, thought records, and action plans that clients use between meetings.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. Remote DBT work emphasizes emotion regulation exercises, mindfulness practice, and short skills coaching during sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, needs, and preferences and then try methods that fit. Adjustments are made as work progresses so methods stay useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for fuller conversation and skills coaching, phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text sessions allow quick check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit care into a busy schedule and keep work moving forward.
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