About Rene
Rene Elsbury offers straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or major life changes. She is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - practicing in Indiana and focuses on helping people find practical ways to cope. Many come to her for help with relationships, intimacy-related concerns, parenting stresses, or recovery from trauma and abuse.
Rene uses clear, collaborative methods to help people sort what matters most.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on improving communication, managing strong emotions, and finding steady routines that reduce day-to-day strain. She draws on approaches that teach skills and shift unhelpful thinking patterns. Her work also supports those dealing with body image, abandonment, or issues rooted in family of origin.
People who have faced sexual assault, dissociation, self-harm urges, or post-traumatic stress may seek her out for steady, practical care. Career stress and questions about life purpose are also common topics. Rene blends client-centered listening with techniques from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness-based approaches.
She incorporates tools to calm intense feelings and to reframe troubling thoughts. For trauma that is affecting daily life, she may use methods intended to reduce the power of painful memories. With seven years of experience, Rene aims to make therapy manageable and relevant to everyday life.
She works with each person to set achievable goals and to try strategies that fit their schedule and needs. Conversations are paced to match what the person can handle in the moment.
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy places the person’s priorities at the center of care. Sessions focus on listening, reflecting, and helping you decide next steps that feel right. This approach helps when someone needs a steady, understanding space to talk through decisions or emotions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It uses practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and build coping routines, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills, useful for strong emotions and impulsivity issues.
Finding the right blend of methods is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose approaches that match goals and comfort level. That may mean trying skills-based exercises one week and reflective, client-centered conversation the next.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit quick updates, ongoing support between sessions, or people who prefer written communication. These options help fit therapy into busy days and different routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English