About Renée
Renée Thompson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Florida with 21 years of counseling experience. She focuses on stress and anxiety alongside grief, self-esteem, depression, parenting concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, and life changes. Renée works to help people find clearer ways to cope and move forward.
Her style is direct and supportive. She centers sessions on each person's strengths and resilience, and treats the client as the expert of their life.
Background and approach
Conversations are practical and goal-focused so people can try new ways of coping between sessions. Renée uses a mix of approaches to match what each person needs. She draws on client-centered work to build understanding, cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, mindfulness skills to manage stress, and emotion-focused tools to address relationship pain.
She introduces techniques and practices in simple, usable steps. She has particular experience with grief and loss, including loss to suicide, and spent a decade providing hospice and palliative care support. Renée also has a long history of supporting people with parenting challenges, blended family issues, and caregiving stress.
Her background includes work with adoption and foster care concerns, chronic illness, body image, and ADHD-related struggles. Renée aims to help clients increase self-awareness, try new perspectives, and build practical coping strategies. She encourages honest conversation, offers encouragement and possible solutions, and focuses on helping people regain a sense of meaning, purpose, and better daily functioning.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
The client-centered approach emphasizes listening and building trust, so online sessions begin with the therapist learning what matters most to the person and tailoring support around their goals. This helps when the main need is understanding emotions, values, and personal strengths.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors. Online work can include brief exercises, thought records, and homework that people use between video or messaging sessions to change patterns linked to anxiety and depression.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. Online sessions can include skills coaching, practice of mindfulness and distress-tolerance techniques, and short check-ins to reinforce new habits.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the early work in therapy. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences, and adjust techniques as progress is made.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter, audio-only check-in is preferred. Live chat and text messaging support brief updates, skill practice, and quick coaching between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and try different ways of connecting with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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