About Renée
Renée Thompson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, parenting concerns, self-esteem struggles, depression, relationship and family issues, and life changes. She offers straightforward support for problems with sleep, eating, anger, career stress, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related challenges. Renée writes plainly and aims to make beginning therapy feel manageable for worried people.
Renée uses a strengths-based, practical approach. She listens first, then helps clients try small changes that build toward bigger shifts.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on increasing self-awareness, naming unhelpful patterns, and testing new ways of responding to daily pressures. Her method draws on client-centered care, cognitive-behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior ideas, emotionally-focused work, and mindfulness practices. That mix lets her tailor sessions to what each person needs, whether the priority is coping skills, emotional regulation, or repairing connection with others.
Renée has worked in counseling for over 21 years and has been a Florida Licensed Clinical Social Worker since 2009. She has long experience supporting people through loss, including grief after suicide, and spent a decade counseling hospice and palliative care patients and their families. This background informs how she approaches sorrow, trauma, and end-of-life concerns.
Sessions are presented in everyday language and aim to move people toward clearer thinking and calmer days. Renée encourages practical steps, collaborative planning, and honest conversation to help clients make sustainable changes.
How Renée’s approaches translate to online work
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and partnership; the therapist follows the person's lead, reflects understanding, and helps clients find their own solutions. This approach is useful when someone needs validation, clarity, or help making decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It helps with anxiety, depression, sleep and eating problems, and stress by giving clear steps and exercises to practice between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) adds skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships, which can be helpful for strong emotions or recurring conflicts.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then suggest methods to try. Clients and the therapist adjust the plan as needed based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and practicing skills in real time, while phone calls can fit into a short break and use less bandwidth. Live chat and text sessions make it possible to check in between meetings or choose shorter, focused exchanges. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep progress moving forward.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- 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
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English