About Renee
Renee LaRock-Gary is a licensed mental health counselor who brings two decades of experience to her work in New York. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and attention challenges such as ADHD. Her way of working is direct and practical, aimed at finding useful strategies clients can use right away.
She begins by listening to what matters most to each person and then selects tools that fit their life.
Background and approach
Renee uses a mix of approaches including attachment-based methods, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior skills, and mindfulness practices. Those tools are combined to match each client's needs rather than following a single formula. Renee has a long history in clinical settings, from crisis centers to hospitals, which has shaped her approach to complex concerns like trauma, abuse, and dissociation.
She also supports people dealing with caregiving strain, chronic illness and pain, cancer-related issues, relationship concerns such as abandonment and commitment worries, and sexual culture topics including kink and BDSM when clients bring them up. Her sessions focus on practical change. Clients work on coping skills, thought patterns, emotional regulation, and building stronger attachment experiences.
She aims to help people leave therapy with tools they can use in daily life. Renee works collaboratively and moves at a pace the client prefers. Her goal is to empower people to make meaningful changes and reduce symptoms so they can pursue a fuller life outside of therapy.
Therapeutic approaches and how they translate online
Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes understanding how early bonds shape current relationships and emotions; it helps people notice patterns in how they connect and find new ways to feel safer with others. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist listens deeply and follows the client's lead to clarify goals and solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors with concrete exercises and homework to reduce symptoms and build healthier habits.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Renee will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan as progress is made. This collaborative process helps identify which techniques feel most useful and which should be changed or combined.
Online therapy makes these approaches flexible and easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and demonstrations of skills, phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when writing helps clarify thoughts. These formats let therapists deliver attachment-based listening, client-centered support, and CBT exercises in ways that match a person's routine and comfort level.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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