About Renee
Renee DeVuyst, LMHC, takes a person-centered approach to counseling. She emphasizes empathy and genuineness while helping people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship concerns. Her style is active and engaged - she listens closely and also offers gentle challenges to promote insight and change.
She has 18 years of professional experience and practices in New York. Renee blends client-centered work with solution-focused and motivational strategies. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques when they fit the situation, helping people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and straightforward. Renee helps people set small, achievable goals and tracks progress together. She works with issues such as self-esteem, coping with life changes, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, ADHD, eating and sleeping problems, and process or substance addictions.
Her background includes a master’s degree in Counselor Education from SUNY Brockport and New York state licensure as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor. Her experience includes supporting people through domestic violence, sexual abuse, and grief, as well as offering intervention for problematic sexual behavior and domestic violence perpetrators when appropriate.
Renee is comfortable using video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging for sessions. She aims to tailor the pace and tools to each person’s needs and preferences, helping them move toward clearer goals and better day-to-day coping.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on meeting people where they are. The therapist offers empathy, genuineness, and acceptance while helping clients explore their feelings and values. This approach is helpful for people coping with anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and life transitions.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. In sessions the therapist helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and tries practical behavior changes to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, or change addictive habits.
Motivational interviewing is a brief, goal-focused method that helps people find their own reasons to change. It can be useful for addictive behaviors, ambivalence about change, or when someone feels stuck.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit the person’s needs, and adjust strategies as progress is made. Clients and the therapist decide together which tools to emphasize.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy lives. Video is good for face-to-face interaction and deeper work. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging can support quick check-ins, coaching-style work, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options make it easier to schedule regular contact and maintain momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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