About Renee
Renee Avis is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina. She brings 20 years of experience to sessions and focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and challenges around eating and body image. She also supports people navigating life changes, career decisions, compassion fatigue, and concerns related to ADHD.
Renee aims to meet each person where they are. She creates a calm, trusting space for straightforward conversation.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and focused on real-life problems rather than jargon. Her work blends tools from cognitive behavioral therapy with mindfulness and acceptance-based strategies. She also uses client-centered and dialectical approaches to help people notice patterns and make different choices.
The emphasis is on skills you can try between sessions. Renee has worked in multiple treatment settings during her career, which gives her experience with common crises and repeated stressors. She talks through coping strategies, communication habits, and day-to-day routines that affect mood and energy.
People often seek her help for self-esteem, eating and food-related struggles, guilt and shame, or the emotional fallout of big life transitions. She also supports women and young adults dealing with social anxiety, midlife questions, or a search for life purpose.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small actions that move a person toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts, behaviors, and routines that keep problems going and teaches practical steps to change them. Mindfulness Therapy trains simple attention skills so people can respond rather than react to stress.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Renee will collaborate with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals and daily life. She adapts tools over time, mixing acceptance, mindfulness, and cognitive strategies so the work stays useful and realistic.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is useful when visual cues help the conversation, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let people touch base between sessions, track goals, or use shorter check-ins during a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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