Dionne Schmidt, LMFT

Dionne Schmidt is a licensed marriage and family therapist who uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people navigate relationship and family challenges. She draws on ten years of clinical experience in North Carolina to support clients through stress, anxiety, and life transitions. Dionne keeps work straightforward and practical so people can see small changes quickly.

She focuses on relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, and family conflict. Dionne also helps with mood struggles including depression and bipolar symptoms, and with addiction, grief, and trauma recovery. She pays attention to attachment patterns and communication habits that shape how people relate.

In sessions she combines CBT with attachment-based ideas and emotionally-focused techniques. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, practice new ways of relating, and name the emotions that drive behavior. She also draws on the Gottman method and narrative work when it fits the client's goals.

Dionne treats problems like anger, sleeping difficulties, low self-esteem, and work stress with clear, step-by-step strategies. She helps people manage ADHD-related challenges and substance concerns alongside relationship repairs. The goal is practical change that fits each person's life.

Her approach is collaborative and direct. She invites people to identify small, achievable goals and then practices skills in sessions. Those steps add up to better communication, steadier mood, and clearer choices.

People meet with Dionne by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and scheduling follows the therapist's availability.

How CBT and Attachment Work Online

Many of Dionne's core approaches translate well to remote work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot and change thoughts and behaviors that keep problems in place; it often uses simple exercises and homework that can be done between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early patterns shape present relationships and helps people build more secure ways of connecting during conversations and practice exercises.

Dionne treats the choice of approach as a joint decision. She will work with each person to pick methods that match their goals, symptoms, and daily life. That collaborative process means treatments can be adjusted as progress is made or needs shift.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and role play, phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or lower bandwidth days, live chat is useful for real-time written exchanges, and text-based messaging supports faster questions or short reflections between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into work, parenting, and busy schedules.