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Dionne Schmidt, LMFT

  • Experience10 years
  • LocationNorth Carolina
  • Focus areasRelationship, Family, and Intimacy-related issues
  • Therapy approachesInternal Family Systems and Attachment-Based Therapy
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About Dionne

Dionne Schmidt is an LMFT practicing in North Carolina who draws on a decade of clinical experience to support people navigating relationship and family challenges. She centers an Internal Family Systems-informed perspective alongside attachment and emotion-focused ideas, helping clients recognize internal parts, strengthen bonds, and process difficult feelings.

Background and approach

Her work also incorporates cognitive tools and existential questions when useful to address patterns and meaning in life. She frequently helps people work through intimacy struggles, parenting dilemmas, communication breakdowns, and conflicts rooted in family of origin or blended family dynamics.

She also addresses concerns such as anxiety, stress, addiction, grief, depression, bipolar mood challenges, ADHD, and issues related to self-esteem, sleeping, and compassion fatigue. Dionne emphasizes clients' strengths and invites them to be active collaborators in defining goals and change strategies.

Approachable and encouraging, she aims to create a space where clients can explore commitment and control issues, navigate separations or forgiveness work, and build practical coping skills. Her goal is to support growth that aligns with each person's values and life circumstances, offering tailored interventions as needs evolve.

Integrating Parts Work and Attachment Online

Many of Dionne's methods aim to help clients better understand internal parts and relational patterns. Internal Family Systems invites people to meet the different parts of themselves with curiosity and compassion, which can be useful for working through anxiety, self-criticism, and relational reactivity. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds shape expectations and responses in close relationships, helping clients repair communication and increase emotional safety with others.

Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to identify goals, test interventions, and adjust methods as needs and preferences emerge, so treatment evolves in partnership rather than following a fixed plan.

Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility for scheduling and access. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care around busy lives, to try brief check-ins between sessions, and to choose the communication style that best supports progress and comfort.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does this therapist address?
Dionne works with a broad range of issues including relationship and family conflicts, intimacy and parenting challenges, ADHD, stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and grief, mood concerns such as depression and bipolar, self-esteem and career concerns, and related areas like sleep problems and compassion fatigue.
Which therapeutic styles inform her practice?
Her approach blends Internal Family Systems with attachment-based perspectives, emotion-focused work, cognitive behavioral strategies, and existential exploration to tailor interventions to each client's needs.
How much clinical experience does the therapist have?
She brings 10 years of professional experience supporting people through relationship, family, and individual concerns across a variety of life challenges.
What are the therapist's credentials and where are they based?
She is an LMFT licensed in North Carolina with license number NC LMFT 1658 and conducts practice from that state.
Does she work with clients who speak other languages or live abroad?
Sessions are offered in English, and she is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available for remote care?
Clients can meet through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on preference and availability.
How are fees and payment structured?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions are provided via a subscription model that may be canceled at any time.
What is the process for beginning therapy?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule an appointment according to the therapist's availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Relationship issuesFamily conflictsIntimacy-related issuesParenting issuesADHD

Also works with

Stress, AnxietyAddictionsLGBTTrauma and abuseGriefSleeping disordersAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderDepressionCoping with life changesCompassion fatigue

Additional focus areas

Attachment issuesAvoidant personalityBlended family issuesCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesDivorce and separationDomestic violenceDrug and alcohol addictionFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFatherhood issuesFertility issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameImmigration issuesImpulsivityInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeVeteran and Armed Forces IssuesMulticultural concernsNarcissismPanic disorder and panic attacksPostpartum depressionPregnancy and childbirthSelf-loveSexualityWomen's issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Existential TherapyGottman MethodNarrative TherapySolution-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

10+ years

Licensed

North Carolina

Languages

English