About Daphney
Dr. Daphney Rene is a licensed clinical social worker with three decades of experience helping people navigate difficult emotions and life transitions. She holds LCSW and LICSW credentials and practices in New Jersey.
Her tone is direct and supportive, aimed at people who want practical help for everyday challenges. She focuses on concerns such as grief and loss, parenting stress, anger, depression, and ADHD. She also works with issues tied to attachment, adoption and foster care, aging, and chronic illness.
Background and approach
Sessions center on identifying what matters to the client and building on personal strengths. In sessions she listens closely and treats clients as the experts on their own lives. She uses a mix of approaches to address patterns of thinking and behavior and to teach skills for coping and emotional regulation.
The goal is improvement in day-to-day functioning, not quick fixes. Her background includes long-term clinical work across settings, giving her a wide view of common struggles people bring to therapy. She brings steadiness and practical strategies to each meeting, helping clients try new ways of responding when old ways no longer work.
Dr. Rene encourages small, manageable steps toward goals. She helps people set realistic plans, practice tools between sessions, and track progress.
The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
How her approaches guide online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify their values and then take small steps toward those values despite painful thoughts or feelings. It is useful for people coping with grief, depression, and the frustration that can come with ADHD.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. It provides concrete tools for managing anger, low mood, and everyday struggles that interfere with functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Dr. Rene will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then recommend approaches or combine techniques in a collaborative way. The plan can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can help with quick check-ins, and text messaging supports short, ongoing coaching or reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try tools between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, New York, Alabama, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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