About Renee
Renee Lafriniere is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. She draws on 25 years of experience to offer steady, compassionate support for people trying to make sense of hard moments. Her work often addresses relationship struggles, career concerns, parenting strain, and ADHD-related challenges.
Renee focuses on practical, down-to-earth conversations that lead to usable strategies. Sessions are aimed at improving communication, coping with mood shifts, and reducing overwhelming stress.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how life stage and culture shape what someone is going through. Her style is collaborative and client-centered. That means she listens first, then helps people set clear goals and try small, realistic changes.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her toolkit when people want to change habits of thinking or behavior that cause distress. Renee has worked across a range of concerns including trauma and abuse, addictions, bipolar disorder, caregiving fatigue, and end-of-life issues. She also supports people dealing with isolation, guilt, postpartum depression, seasonal mood shifts, and questions of life purpose.
Based in Florida, she holds the LMHC and LPCC credentials. Her approach is patient and practical, helping people build skills they can use between sessions. Many clients come for help sorting priorities, improving relationships, and finding steadier footing through change.
How her approaches fit into online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person's experience first and focuses on listening, empathy, and working at a pace that feels right. It helps people who need space to talk through feelings, clarify values, and set personal goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change patterns that cause distress. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and habit change.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they will try methods that match the client's needs and adjust the plan if something isn't working.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls are helpful for face-to-face interaction and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions work well when lower bandwidth or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can support quick check-ins, journaling between sessions, or ongoing coaching-style support. These options increase flexibility and help people keep continuity of care when schedules or locations change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Washington, California
- Languages
- English
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