About Rene’
Rene Buchman is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 23 years of experience practicing in Illinois. She focuses on practical help for stress and anxiety and guides people through relationship strain, grief, and major life changes. Rene meets people where they are and encourages small, doable steps toward feeling steadier.
Over her career she has worked with a wide range of concerns, including panic attacks, workplace difficulties, and communication problems.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing divorce or separation and those rethinking life purpose during midlife shifts. Hearing impaired clients are noted among her focus areas. Rene uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect.
She helps people test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors that reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented. Conversations aim to identify patterns, build coping skills, and create steps you can try between meetings.
She emphasizes collaboration and respects each person's strengths and history. Many clients come with stress from work or family, questions about self-worth, or the pain of loss. Rene helps people prioritize what matters now and plan concrete ways to move forward.
The tone in session is respectful, direct, and focused on lasting change.
CBT and Online Options for Managing Anxiety
Rene uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people see how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT involves noticing unhelpful thoughts, testing whether they are accurate, and trying small behavior changes to reduce worry and panic. It is often helpful for panic attacks, anxiety, workplace stress, and coping with major life changes.Choosing the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try techniques that fit those needs. Adjustments are made over time so the approach stays practical and useful.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video lets you use face-to-face interaction for skill practice, phone can be a quicker check-in or useful when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can help with short reflections between sessions. These options make it simpler to work on anxiety skills around work or family life and to keep continuity when life gets busy.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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