Dionne Schmidt, LMFT
North Carolina · 10 years in practice
Dionne Schmidt is a licensed marriage and family therapist who centers therapy on meaning, choice, and connection.
License and registration
- LMFT, North Carolina
- 1658 · expires July 2026
- NPI
- 1639327471 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Dionne
Dionne Schmidt is a licensed marriage and family therapist who centers therapy on meaning, choice, and connection. She brings ten years of experience helping people sort through relationship and family stress. Dionne uses clear, practical language so clients can apply what they learn between sessions.
Her approach blends existential thinking with attachment work and evidence-informed tools. That means she helps people face big life questions - purpose, responsibility, and change - while also looking at how early bonds shape current relationships.
Background and approach
Sessions often include conversations about communication, closeness, and patterns that keep problems repeating. Dionne regularly supports people with anxiety, depression, grief, and stress. She also works with concerns such as parenting struggles, intimacy issues, ADHD, addiction, and coping with life changes.
She pays attention to how family history and roles influence present behavior and choices. In therapy she uses concrete strategies when they help, like cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and relationship-focused tools to rebuild connection. She also draws on emotionally focused ideas and the Gottman Method to improve how partners talk and repair conflict.
People meet Dionne where they are and set realistic goals together. She frames progress as small steps rather than sudden fixes. Her North Carolina licensure as an LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist) is part of her professional background, and she conducts sessions in English.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Dionne lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- ADHD
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Dionne names
- Existential Therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How existential and attachment work translate to online therapy
Existential therapy helps people name what matters to them, confront life changes, and make purposeful choices. In a few plain conversations this approach looks at values, freedom, and how someone wants to live. Attachment-Based Therapy examines how early relationships shape current bonds and communication; it focuses on noticing interaction patterns and building safer emotional connections.Many clients find that a combination of these approaches is useful. Dionne will work collaboratively to decide which methods fit the client's goals and personality. That means trying things, checking what helps, and adjusting course together rather than following a fixed plan.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video is useful for face-to-face interaction and deeper emotional work, phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can suit quick check-ins or those who prefer writing. These options allow flexible scheduling and steady contact while working on relationship patterns, anxiety, grief, and practical coping skills.
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you. It does not change what you pay or the order of the listings.
Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns can be addressed in sessions?
She helps with relationship and intimacy issues, family conflict, parenting challenges, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, ADHD, stress, and related concerns like communication and commitment issues.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Therapy blends existential questions about meaning with attachment and skill-based techniques. Conversations are straightforward and focused on practical changes people can try between sessions.
What is her professional background?
Dionne has ten years of clinical experience working with people facing relationship, family, and emotional concerns. She emphasizes collaboration and building on each person's strengths.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds an LMFT credential and is licensed in North Carolina.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and is billed through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with this therapist?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling according to the therapist's availability.
More therapists in North Carolina
See allTawnya Thompson
LCMHC
Practical, experienced counseling for everyday struggles
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship
- Depression
Margaret Hormenoo
LCMHC
Compassionate counselor for life transitions
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship
- Grief
Is this your profile?
Ask us to correct details or take the page down.
Contact us