About Renette
Renette Herrera is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 13 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress, navigate major life changes, and address mood and relationship concerns. Renette offers a calm, direct style and aims to make sessions feel practical and approachable for people who are worried or overwhelmed.
Her approach centers on listening first and then collaborating on steps that fit each person’s life.
Background and approach
She draws on client-centered methods and evidence-informed tools to help people change unhelpful patterns. Sessions are interactive and use clear exercises rather than long lectures. Renette uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify thought and behavior patterns that maintain distress.
She also includes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness practices to build tolerance for strong feelings and to reconnect people with what matters most to them. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are integrated when people need help managing intense emotions or improving relationships.
People who come to her for help with addiction concerns, trauma, parenting stress, ADHD, grief, or relationship strain will find practical strategies and gradual skill building. She pays attention to attachment and family-of-origin themes that often shape current patterns. The work is paced to each person’s needs and capacity.
Renette aims to create a respectful, warm space where difficult topics can be spoken about plainly. She partners with clients to set goals, try specific tools between sessions, and track what is changing over time.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Renette commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change patterns of thinking and behavior that keep anxiety and low mood in place. CBT often includes practical exercises and short experiments to try between sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is another frequent tool she uses; it focuses on clarifying personal values and learning how to act toward them even when strong emotions show up. Mindfulness practices are woven into sessions to help people notice sensations and thoughts without getting swept away by them.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Renette partners with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time and checks in about what is or is not helping so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online therapy can make that collaborative work easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation and real-time skill teaching. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, coping plans, and timely encouragement between scheduled sessions. These options offer flexibility so people can use the format that best suits their routine and comfort.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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