About Rene
Rene Jourdan, LCPC, uses a grounded, person-centered approach to help people facing strong mental health challenges. She focuses on practical tools and steady support so clients can handle stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and ADHD. Her style is direct and compassionate, with simple goals each session.
Rene blends cognitive behavioral methods with acceptance and commitment ideas. She helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, make values-based choices, and build coping skills for daily life.
Background and approach
That mix is useful for mood shifts, relationship strain, and problems with focus or impulse control. She has more than 11 years of clinical experience working across community programs in Idaho. Rene ran crisis services in North Idaho for over five years and has managed substance use programs.
That background means she is familiar with emergency needs, relapse prevention, and group-based treatment formats. Rene has led and facilitated several therapeutic groups. Examples include coping skills groups, basic mental health processing groups, and the Matrix Model for addiction.
She also supervises programs that provide family and peer support and works with adults with co-occurring diagnoses. In sessions she uses practical exercises, hands-on strategies, and focused discussion. People can expect clear goals, homework when helpful, and a collaborative pace.
Her work centers on helping clients regain control and move toward the life they want.
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that align with those values. It helps when negative thoughts or heavy emotions get in the way of daily life and decision making.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and for building practical coping skills.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences, then try methods that fit. That decision is collaborative and can shift as needs change.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and exercises. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat and text are useful for quick check-ins, shorter coaching-style support, and ongoing contact between longer sessions.
These formats give flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, or travel, and support continuity when in-person visits are difficult. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT and CBT tools effectively in each format so therapy remains practical and focused.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- 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
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Idaho
- Languages
- English
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