About Renée
Renée Thompson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 21 years of counseling experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, self-esteem, depression, relationship and family concerns, and ADHD. Her style is warm and practical, aimed at small, doable changes that add up over time.
Renée emphasizes strengths and resiliency. She treats clients as the experts on their own lives and offers guidance while people try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Sessions often include helping clients increase self-awareness, test different perspectives, and practice skills between meetings. Her background includes long experience with hospice and palliative care, grief related to suicide loss, and work with children and adult clients across many life stages.
She has been a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Florida since 2009 and brings two decades of clinical practice to each case. Therapy with Renée typically blends client-centered listening with practical tools from cognitive and behavior-focused approaches. Mindfulness exercises and emotion-focused work also appear when they match a client's goals.
The overall aim is to reduce distress and help people return to everyday functioning more quickly. Renée approaches sessions without judgment and with empathy. She will offer perspective, encouragement, and concrete suggestions.
The goal is to support people as they make steady, meaningful changes toward a more balanced life.
How Renée combines approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's goals. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what they hear, and supports people as they try new behaviors or perspectives. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change patterns that cause distress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating stress when life feels overwhelming.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Renée will discuss goals and preferences and then suggest strategies from these methods. Together the client and therapist choose what seems most helpful, and they adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and skills practice. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and text messaging let people send brief updates, ask quick questions, or follow up on skills between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while keeping consistent, collaborative care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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