About Dianne
Dianne Smith is a licensed marriage and family therapist with more than four decades of clinical experience. She takes a direct, get-to-work approach while remaining warm and compassionate. Dianne focuses on helping people learn skills and practical steps to manage life’s challenges, including ADHD, stress, anxiety, and grief.
She values education and clear explanations, so sessions often include teaching simple tools clients can use between meetings. Dianne pays attention to each person’s beliefs, goals, and strengths when deciding what will help most.
Background and approach
That means she tailors sessions rather than using a one-size-fits-all method. Trauma-informed care is a consistent thread in her work, and she also draws on cognitive behavioral strategies and dialectical approaches to build coping skills. Those methods aim to reduce overwhelming feelings and increase day-to-day functioning.
People working through relationship strain, parenting concerns, addiction, or mood challenges often focus on practical changes and new routines. Over the years Dianne has guided people through major life transitions, attachment and abandonment issues, and recovery from past harm. She helps clients identify patterns, set small goals, and practice new behaviors so progress feels manageable.
Her style is straightforward, with an emphasis on skill-building and steady forward movement. Located in Idaho, Dianne brings experience and plainspoken guidance to sessions. She invites people who want clear tools and a collaborative plan to reach out and explore whether her approach fits their needs.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
She often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. CBT focuses on practical exercises and short-term goals that can reduce anxiety, improve mood, and help with ADHD-related routines.Dialectical behavior therapy is another approach she brings into sessions for emotional regulation and distress tolerance. DBT includes skill-building around managing strong emotions, improving interpersonal effectiveness, and coping with overwhelming moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review a person’s needs, goals, and preferences and will adapt methods as progress is tracked. That collaborative process helps decide which strategies to emphasize over time.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and interactive work, phone sessions can fit a shorter break in the day or when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports quick check-ins or skill practice between scheduled sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue steady work regardless of location.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 43 years
- Licensed
- Idaho
- Languages
- English
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