Dionne Schmidt, LMFT
North Carolina · 10 years in practice
Dionne Schmidt is a licensed marriage and family therapist who centers her work on attachment and relationships.
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 her work on attachment and relationships. She brings 10 years of experience helping people sort through relationship strain, parenting questions, intimacy concerns, and the stress that often follows major life changes.
She uses practical methods drawn from Attachment-Based Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people name patterns and try different ways of responding. Sessions often focus on what happens between people, and on small changes that shift how someone thinks, feels, and connects.
Background and approach
Many clients come with anxiety, depression, grief, or the wear of caregiving and compassion fatigue. She also supports people facing addiction, bipolar mood concerns, sleeping problems, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. She pays attention to attachment wounds, communication and commitment problems, and difficulties that come from blended families or family-of-origin issues.
Dionne works with people in North Carolina and conducts sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. She frames therapy as a partnership - clients bring their story and she brings tools to try between sessions. Her style is straightforward and steady, focused on steps that can be practiced in everyday life.
Clients who want to get started complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that fits their needs. She aims to help people build clearer communication, healthier boundaries, and more satisfying connections over time.
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
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- 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
Using attachment and evidence-based approaches online
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people understand how early relationship patterns affect current bonds; it focuses on emotions and connection to change how partners or family members respond to one another. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to shift those patterns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on the emotional experience between partners and helps create new, safer ways to communicate and reconnect.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which methods fit their goals and preferences, and she may combine tools from different approaches as needs evolve. This is a shared process where the client's priorities guide decisions about focus and pacing.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let participants work face-to-face when discussing sensitive relationship moments. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for short check-ins. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, homework, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work between sessions.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does this therapist address?
Dionne focuses on relationship and family stress, intimacy and parenting issues, ADHD, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, trauma, and related challenges such as communication problems, commitment issues, and blended family struggles.
What is the therapeutic style like?
The approach blends Attachment-Based Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Gottman Method ideas, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and narrative or existential perspectives to help people notice patterns and try new responses in their relationships.
How much experience does the therapist have?
She has 10 years of professional experience working with relationship and family concerns and related mental health issues.
Where is the therapist located and licensed?
She is licensed as an LMFT in North Carolina and practices with that regional focus.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are offered?
Sessions can be held by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are costs and payment handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with therapy?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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