About Renee
Renee Shacochis, MD, LCSW-C, helps people manage anxiety and related life stresses. She offers a calm, respectful presence and focuses on building a trusting relationship first. Her style is conversational and practical, aimed at making therapy feel manageable for someone juggling daily demands.
She uses a client-centered approach that draws on the person's strengths. Renee may use cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns. She also incorporates mindfulness and narrative ideas to help people notice patterns and rewrite difficult stories they tell themselves.
Background and approach
Over the past ten years she has provided individual, family, and group work to people with depression, grief, parenting challenges, relationship concerns, trauma, and adjustment issues. That experience informs how she tailors sessions to each person's needs. Renee values sensitivity, respect, and clear communication in session.
Sessions focus on practical skills and insights that people can try between meetings. She helps clients set small goals, practice new ways of coping, and track progress. The pace is set together so work feels productive but not overwhelming.
Renee practices in Maryland and conducts work in English. She offers multiple remote formats to fit different schedules and preferences, and she supports people through common life transitions, career stress, compassion fatigue, and attention challenges.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. In online sessions this means conversations that follow the client's lead, honoring their goals and pace while looking for strengths to build on.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks difficulties into thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online work can include short exercises, thought records, and homework that a person practices between sessions to reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for regulating emotion and handling crisis moments. In remote sessions this can mean learning grounding and distress-tolerance techniques and practicing them with guidance from the therapist.
Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit, and adjust plans based on what helps most. That means the work evolves to match needs, preferences, and life demands.
Online sessions offer practical benefits like flexibility and easier scheduling. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when bandwidth supports it. Phone sessions can work when video would be difficult, and live chat or text-based messaging can fit brief check-ins, written reflections, or ongoing support between longer appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week and to continue work during life transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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