Dianna Roland-Sumlin , LCSW

Dianna Roland-Sumlin is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Florida with 14 years of experience. She blends practical strategies and listening to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and challenges tied to identity. Her style is straightforward and collaborative, aiming to help people make decisions that fit their lives.

Dianna uses approaches that focus on the person and their goals. She introduces steps you can try between sessions, like simple thought exercises and mindfulness practices. Sessions often include talking through problems, planning small changes, and practicing skills that reduce intense emotions.

She has a background that includes work with people who identify as LGBT and those from diverse racial and cultural backgrounds. Dianna also brings experience supporting people facing relationship strain, anger, grief, career change, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related challenges. She helps people sort family of origin issues, abandonment and attachment concerns, and feelings of emptiness or isolation.

In the room she draws from client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior skills, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. That mix lets her tailor sessions to what each person needs most. She also works with people around gender dysphoria and related concerns in a respectful way.

Her practice includes short-term skill-building and longer work on patterns that keep causing pain. Dianna aims to make progress feel doable by breaking goals into small steps. People who want practical tools plus reflective conversation often find this approach useful.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s goals and values, creating space for them to steer the work while the therapist listens and reflects. This approach helps when someone needs acceptance and clarity about what matters to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, and managing stress.

Finding the right mix of techniques is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and the problems they want to solve. That collaborative planning can shift over time as needs change and progress is made.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow fuller interaction and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or require less bandwidth, and chat or messaging can support short check-ins or exercises between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and daily obligations while still accessing therapeutic tools and support.