About Connie
Connie Dinkler is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in North Carolina. She has 11 years of clinical experience helping people who are stressed, anxious, or feeling stuck.
Background and approach
Connie focuses on building confidence, easing depression, and guiding people through life changes. Her work starts by listening.
She treats each person as the expert on their own story and looks for the strengths they already have. Connie helps people name what feels hard and then picks simple steps to make things more manageable.
She uses straightforward methods like cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thinking and solution-focused steps to set short-term goals. Gottman-informed strategies are used when relationship patterns are part of the concern.
Mindfulness skills are introduced to reduce anxiety and improve focus. Sessions are practical and conversational.
Connie offers clear tools to try between meetings and checks how those tools are working. She aims to make progress feel doable rather than overwhelming.
People often come for help with communication problems, separation and divorce issues, attachment or abandonment worries, panic attacks, or feelings of isolation. She also supports clients exploring life purpose and midlife transitions.
Connie helps people build self-love and better patterns of relating to themselves and others.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead to uncover strengths and goals. It helps people who need a supportive, nonjudgmental space to make decisions and build confidence. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, which is useful for anxiety, panic, and depression. The Gottman Method offers practical ways to notice relationship patterns and improve communication when conflict or separation is a concern.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Connie will talk with the client about their goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan based on what helps. She pairs short-term aims with longer-term work so clients see progress and feel in control of next steps.
Online sessions can fit many lifestyles because they remove travel and scheduling barriers. Video calls let therapists observe reactions and teach skills in real time. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for brief updates, quick coaching, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to keep momentum between sessions and build skills steadily.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English