About Dionna
Dionna Smith-Johnson is a licensed clinical mental health counselor in North Carolina. She draws on three years of clinical experience to help people who are feeling stuck by anxiety, depression, grief, or major life changes. She focuses on clear, practical steps.
Sessions are calm and respectful, with time to talk about immediate concerns and to plan small, realistic changes. Dionna uses both client-centered conversation and cognitive behavioral ideas to shape progress one step at a time.
Background and approach
She supports people coping with phobias, addictions, caregiver stress, and relationship problems. She also works with those facing hospice and end-of-life issues, grief after loss, or worries tied to veteran and armed forces experiences. Her approach is steady and patient rather than rushed.
In sessions she listens for how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. She helps clients spot patterns, test new behaviors, and practice skills between meetings. That makes therapy feel useful in everyday life rather than only during sessions.
Her style is collaborative and respectful of each client’s pace. People who prefer straightforward conversation and homework-style practice often find this approach helpful. Dionna offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and collaboration. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects feelings, and helps people feel heard and understood. This approach can help when someone needs a steady, empathetic space to talk through anxiety, grief, or life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses clear exercises and small experiments to test unhelpful thinking and build different habits. CBT techniques often help with anxiety, mood concerns, obsessive behaviors, and coping strategies for stress.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Dionna collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan based on what is helping and what feels workable.
Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options give flexibility for scheduling, follow-up, and practicing skills in everyday moments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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