About Renee
Renee LaRock-Gary is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in New York. She brings two decades of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and ADHD. Renee speaks plainly and aims to make the first meetings feel practical and useful.
Her background includes long experience in crisis settings, group work in transitional housing, and advocacy for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence.
Background and approach
That history shaped a hands-on approach to helping people who have had difficult life events. Renee keeps learning new methods so she can offer a range of options in session. Renee draws from attachment-based and client-centered ideas to build trust and to follow each person's goals.
She also uses cognitive behavioral strategies and elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach skills for stress, mood, and anxiety. Mindfulness techniques are woven in to help with focus and grounding. Her style is collaborative and practical.
She aims to identify useful tools early and then refine them together. Renee often frames work as finding a personal “recipe” of strategies that fit each person’s life and needs. Sessions tend to emphasize skills practice, clear steps, and gradual progress at a pace that feels doable.
The goal is better daily functioning and more manageable emotions, rather than staying stuck in overwhelm or avoidance.
How her approaches fit into online work
Attachment-based work focuses on relationships and safety in session. It helps people understand how early bonds influence current stress and closeness, and it can reduce anxiety around trust and connection.Client-centered therapy centers the person's goals and pacing. The therapist follows the client's lead, offering empathy and reflection so people feel heard while they sort out what matters most.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Renee will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people use visual cues and practice skills together. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, skill reinforcement, or ongoing notes between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and varied schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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