About Connie
Connie Dinkler is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in North Carolina. She has 11 years of clinical experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. Connie focuses on clear, practical steps and gentle encouragement to help people move forward.
She uses a client-centered approach that starts by listening to what matters most to each person. Sessions are framed around the client's goals and strengths. Connie helps people notice patterns that keep them stuck and then tries simple, doable changes.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her toolkit for addressing anxiety, panic, phobias, and low mood. That work often includes identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms. She also uses mindfulness practices to help people ground themselves during strong emotion.
For relationship concerns she draws on the Gottman Method to improve communication and reduce conflict. Solution-focused strategies are woven in when someone wants fast, practical steps for an immediate problem. Across approaches, Connie emphasizes collaboration and respect for each person's pace.
People come to Connie for a range of concerns including abandonment and attachment issues, communication problems, divorce and separation, family of origin difficulties, infidelity, isolation, life purpose and midlife struggles. She supports those facing panic attacks, phobias, and other anxiety-related problems with straightforward, repeatable skills.
Approaches you can use online and in-session
Client-centered therapy centers the conversation on what matters most to the person seeking help, letting the therapist follow the client's lead and build on strengths. This approach helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort priorities and clarify values.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In short, it helps people learn to spot unhelpful thinking, try small behavior changes, and track what actually helps with anxiety, panic, phobias, or low mood.
The Gottman-informed work Connie uses emphasizes improving communication and reducing conflict in relationships through practical skills and structured exercises. It can be useful for couples or individuals wanting clearer patterns and safer conversations.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Connie will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try methods that fit their needs. That collaborative testing helps narrow what is most helpful over time.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and exercises, phone can fit people with limited bandwidth, chat and messaging work well for quick check-ins or brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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