About Dianna
Dianna Roland-Sumlin is a licensed clinical social worker with 14 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and relationship concerns. She practices in Florida and draws on practical therapy methods to help people find clearer next steps. Dianna keeps language direct and sessions focused on what the person wants to change.
Her style blends client-centered work with structured tools. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thinking.
Background and approach
She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills and mindfulness exercises to build emotional regulation and moment-to-moment coping. Dianna often helps people who feel overwhelmed by anger, low self-esteem, grief, or major life transitions. She also supports those facing issues related to identity, including gender dysphoria and LGBT concerns, and people dealing with family of origin problems or ongoing communication struggles.
She addresses practical problems like impulsivity, codependency, and commitment worries in concrete ways. Her background includes performance coaching for athletes through sport and exercise psychology, which informs how she approaches motivation and goal setting. That perspective can be useful for people wanting clear action plans and skills to practice between sessions.
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Dianna works with each person to build a plan that fits their life and priorities. She focuses on small, manageable steps that lead to noticeable change over time.
Practical approaches for online care and skills practice
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's goals and experiences. It creates space for people to set their own priorities while the therapist listens and reflects what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thinking and test new, more helpful behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches specific emotion-regulation and distress-tolerance skills that help when feelings feel overwhelming or impulsive behavior is a concern.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about current needs and preferences, then try methods that fit those goals. Together they adjust techniques and pacing so work in sessions matches real-life demands and outcomes people want to see.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face when demonstration or guided practice is helpful. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth or visual focus is an issue. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, skill reminders, or between-session coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy routine and to practice new skills in daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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