About Dion
Dion Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with ten years of clinical experience. He helps people facing phobias, anxiety, trauma, addiction, depression, and stress. He also supports those dealing with grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, and work-related issues.
Dion draws on causes people bring in to shape practical plans. Sessions focus on clear steps people can try between meetings. He blends talking, skill practice, and grounding techniques so concerns feel more manageable over time.
Background and approach
His background includes work as a school psychology specialist and later moving into counseling. For several years he provided services as a civilian contractor through a Department of Defense program, focusing on military transition and related stressors. That work influenced how he thinks about trauma and life change.
Dion uses a mix of methods to match each person’s needs. He commonly uses client-centered work, cognitive-behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior skills, existential reflection, and eye movement methods for trauma. He selects tools based on what a person wants to accomplish.
Practical assessment and referral are part of the practice when needed. Sessions may include skill building, emotion regulation work, or trauma processing depending on goals. People who are weighing their options are invited to begin with a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.
How chosen approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. The therapist follows the person’s lead and helps them set goals and try things that feel useful in daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets thoughts and behaviors with clear exercises and homework, which often includes tracking patterns and testing out new actions between sessions. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is used to address traumatic memories by pairing focused attention with guided processing to reduce distress related to past events.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist and client decide together which methods to try based on the person’s goals, comfort level, and response to initial sessions. That collaborative decision-making helps shape a plan that fits each person’s needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick skills practice, support between sessions, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to fit therapy into a busy life.
Questions people ask
What concerns does this therapist address?
What kind of therapy style can I expect?
How much clinical experience is there?
Where is the therapist located and what are credentials?
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
What session formats are available?
How does payment and cost work?
How do I begin working with this therapist?
What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.