About Dionne
Dionne Schmidt is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in North Carolina. She draws on ten years of clinical experience to help people manage relationship and family concerns. Her approach centers on listening first and finding practical steps that fit daily life.
Dionne works with a wide range of concerns including intimacy and parenting struggles, stress and anxiety, mood disorders such as depression and bipolar, and substance use issues.
How Dionne works
She also helps people facing grief, trauma, compassion fatigue, and identity-related questions in LGBT contexts. Her practice pays attention to how family history and attachment shape current patterns. Her style blends attachment-focused thinking with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy.
She uses the Gottman Method and narrative ideas to address communication, commitment, and recurring conflicts. Sessions aim to surface how thoughts, emotions, and behavior keep problems going, and then to try small, testable changes. Dionne frames therapy as a collaborative process.
She treats clients as the experts on their own lives and helps them build skills that fit their goals. Progress often includes clearer communication, fewer painful cycles, and better day-to-day coping. People who meet with Dionne can expect straightforward discussion, practical tools, and attention to personal values.
She offers sessions that work around life demands and supports clients as they try new ways of relating and managing stress.
Dionne lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Dionne works with
The areas below are the ones Dionne selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Attachment and Emotion-Focused Care Online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and reactions. Online sessions use conversation and exercises to identify unhelpful patterns and practice new ways of connecting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through clear, practical exercises that can be tried between sessions to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, EFT, helps people name and organize strong feelings and then use new responses to change repeating cycles in close relationships.Dionne treats the choice of approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether attachment work, CBT, EFT, or a blend will be the best path forward and adjust the plan as they learn what helps.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls work well for face-to-face interaction and in-session exercises, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, childcare, and other commitments.
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