About Rene
Rene Elsbury is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people handle stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She works with individuals facing relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career questions, and major life changes. Her tone is direct and supportive for someone looking for practical help.
Elsbury draws on several evidence-based approaches to tailor care to each person. She uses client-centered techniques to focus on a person's own goals and strengths.
Background and approach
She also applies cognitive behavioral strategies to help people recognize and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She incorporates mindfulness skills to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness. For people who have experienced trauma, she can use EMDR-related methods alongside other approaches to address post-traumatic stress and traumatic memories.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools are included when emotion regulation and impulsivity are central concerns. With seven years of clinical experience, Rene works from a strengths-based perspective. She helps clients improve communication, cope with family of origin issues, and navigate feelings around abandonment, body image, and sexuality.
Her approach is collaborative and practical, focused on small steps that add up. Clients in Indiana can expect straightforward conversations about goals, coping skills to try between sessions, and support for building more stable routines. Sessions aim to help people feel more capable of managing daily stressors and moving toward clearer purpose.
How Rene’s approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person's goals at the center of each session, so online meetings begin with what matters most to the client. This approach helps people set practical goals and shape sessions around those priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing thought patterns and trying new behaviors. Online sessions use concrete exercises and homework that clients can practice between video or chat meetings to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be a collaborative decision. The therapist discusses goals, preferences, and the kinds of activities a person is willing to try. Together they check progress and adjust methods when something is not helping.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which let clients fit therapy into different schedules. Video works well for more in-depth conversations and skills practice, while phone sessions can require less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging can be a helpful shorter check-in during a busy day or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options aim to make it easier to keep continuity of care and try tools between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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