About Rena
Rena Smith is a licensed clinical social worker with 23 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and navigate the hard parts of life. Her approach is straightforward and respectful.
She treats clients as the experts on their own stories. Rena helps people who are coping with addictions, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, and grief. She also supports those facing career disruption, parenting challenges, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Her work includes issues such as anger, eating concerns, and compassion fatigue. Her practice draws on methods that encourage practical change. She uses skills-based work from cognitive behavioral approaches and goal-focused tools to build small, achievable steps.
She also leans on acceptance-based ideas to help people notice painful thoughts and still move toward what matters. Rena values listening first. Sessions aim to identify what a person wants to change and then try doable strategies.
She often blends coaching-style questions with therapeutic tools to create a plan that fits daily life. Clients can expect clear suggestions, homework when it helps, and a tone that is calm and direct. Rena practices from Louisiana and conducts sessions in English.
She frames progress as steady effort rather than instant fixes, and she supports each person as they work toward more balance and meaning.
Approach-driven online care that fits your life
Rena commonly uses acceptance and commitment ideas and cognitive behavioral tools in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, and it supports choosing actions that match personal values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and practicing new behaviors to reduce symptoms such as anxiety and compulsions.Finding the right mix of methods is part of therapy. Rena works together with each person to choose approaches that match their goals and preferences. She checks in about what is helping and adjusts tools as needed so therapy stays relevant and practical.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skills practice, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, chat sessions can work for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a workday, a busy home schedule, or times when shorter check-ins feel most useful.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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