Dionna Smith-Johnson, LCMHC
North Carolina · 3 years in practice
Dionna Smith-Johnson is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina.
License and registration
- LCMHC, North Carolina
- 18584 · expires June 2026
- NPI
- 1144939711 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 3
- Languages
- English
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About Dionna
Dionna Smith-Johnson is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, or major life changes. Her approach is calm and straightforward, aimed at making therapy understandable and useful for everyday life.
She uses client-centered conversations to hear what matters most to each person. That means sessions are guided by the client's goals and paced to fit their needs.
Background and approach
She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical experiments to change them. Dionna pays attention to how relationships and life roles affect well-being. She supports people dealing with caregiver stress, family problems, communication challenges, and issues like infidelity or isolation.
She also works with concerns tied to mood, obsessions and compulsions, paranoia, and veteran and armed forces issues. Her style is direct but compassionate. She helps people notice patterns, practice different ways of responding, and set small steps toward change.
Sessions are collaborative and focused on skills you can use between meetings. With three years of clinical experience, Dionna aims to create an affirming space for people to sort through difficult feelings. She offers sessions in English and provides several remote formats to fit different schedules and needs.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Dionna lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Grief
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
Approaches Dionna names
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Online support
How her approaches fit into online therapy
Dionna uses client-centered therapy to shape sessions around what matters most to each person. That approach focuses on listening, validating experiences, and helping clients set goals that feel right to them. It can help when people want a space to talk through feelings and decide next steps.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT in online work often includes identifying negative thinking patterns and practicing small behavioral experiments between sessions. This approach is practical for anxiety, depression, compulsions, and many stress-related concerns.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Dionna will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they adjust methods over time so sessions stay useful and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people see and be seen when that matters. Phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging fit quick check-ins, shorter reflections, or times when a written format is easier to use. These options make it easier to balance therapy with work, caregiving, or other daily demands.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Dionna address?
Dionna works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and coping with life changes. She also focuses on caregiver stress, communication problems, domestic violence, and related issues.
What is her therapy style like?
She practices in a client-centered way, listening closely to priorities and pacing. She pairs that with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help change unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has three years of experience working with people on mood, addiction, grief, and life transition concerns.
Where is Dionna licensed and located?
She is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) licensed in North Carolina and practices there.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
International clients are not accepted at this time.
What session formats does she offer?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How are costs and getting started handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on availability.
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