About Daphney
Dr. Daphney Rene is a licensed clinical social worker with three decades of experience in counseling. She holds LCSW and LICSW credentials and practices from New Jersey.
She focuses on grief, parenting concerns, anger, depression, and ADHD. She starts by listening to each person's story and honoring the strengths they already have. Clients can expect straightforward, down-to-earth conversations.
Sessions focus on practical steps rather than technical jargon. The therapist treats each person as the expert on their life while offering guidance and tools to manage hard moments.
Background and approach
In sessions, she uses methods that help people notice what matters, change unhelpful thoughts, and build emotion regulation skills. Therapy can include values-based choices, problem-solving, and learning new ways to respond to stress. Work is paced to fit what the individual needs and can handle.
Her background spans many settings and a wide range of concerns tied to life transitions and long-term stress. That includes issues linked to adoption and foster care, attachment, aging, chronic illness, caregiving strain, body image, and cancer-related distress. She also helps people navigate communication and control issues, commitment worries, and the fallout from disasters.
Sessions are offered in English and available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. The subscription-based model is used for scheduling and payment, and it can be canceled at any time. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and an initial appointment is scheduled.
How specific approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people name their values and take small steps toward them even when hard thoughts or feelings show up. It can be useful for grief, depression, and deciding how to respond to life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new ways of thinking and behaving. That approach often helps with anger, depressive symptoms, and attention-related challenges.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist listens to what matters most, reviews goals, and suggests techniques that fit the person's life. Sessions can blend methods as needed so the work stays practical and relevant to current problems.
Online therapy offers several practical advantages. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between longer sessions, send brief updates, or work through short exercises. These formats provide flexibility so therapy can fit into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, New York, Alabama, North Carolina
- Languages
- English