About Renee
Renee Joyce is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Colorado with 13 years of clinical experience. She works with adults who want clearer coping skills and steadier emotional footing. Renee aims to make the first steps feel manageable so people can feel relief sooner rather than later.
Her style is strength-focused and solution-minded. Sessions are collaborative and active. Renee helps clients identify what gets in the way and then builds practical steps to move forward.
Background and approach
Renee supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, burnout, grief, trauma, and mood concerns. She also works with those navigating identity questions, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, career shifts, and neurodivergent experiences like ADHD and autism. Communication problems, intimacy concerns, and family of origin issues are other common topics in her work.
Her approach draws from attachment-based work, client-centered methods, dialectical behavior therapy, EMDR, and tools influenced by the Gottman Method. Sessions focus on skills, processing, and real-world solutions to daily problems. Some clients reach short-term goals in 4 to 12 sessions while others stay longer for deeper healing.
Renee describes therapy as purposeful and hopeful. She partners with each person to build a clearer, more authentic life grounded in what matters to them.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current connections and emotional patterns. Online sessions use conversation and reflective exercises to strengthen how someone understands and responds to closeness and trust. Client-centered therapy centers the person's goals and pace, letting the therapist follow the client's lead while offering empathy and practical feedback. This approach helps with self-esteem, identity questions, and making decisions about relationships. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and regulating behavior. DBT skills can be taught and practiced across video, phone, chat, or text for quick reminders between sessions.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and current challenges and then suggest methods to try. Plans can be adjusted as progress is made so the work stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls work well for in-depth conversation and interactive exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to send quick updates, practice skills in the moment, or keep a steady connection between longer sessions. These options help therapy fit into busy lives and differing daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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