About Renee
Renee Adams is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 13 years of practice in California. She focuses on helping people manage depression, anxiety, stress, and self-esteem concerns. She also supports those facing career strain and life transitions.
Her style is straightforward and respectful, aimed at practical progress. Renee draws on experience across the legal system, mental health settings, and medical hospitals. That background shaped how she sees common struggles and practical solutions.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to emphasize the person’s strengths and everyday coping skills rather than complex jargon. Her approach centers on the client as the expert in their own life. Renee asks questions to understand what matters most and then helps set clear, achievable goals.
She uses tools from solution-focused work to identify small changes that lead to better days. Conversations with her are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. She listens for what is already working and builds on those parts of life.
This can help people feel more steady during transitions or after loss. Renee also brings attention to specific life contexts like adoption and foster care, caregiving, first responder and veteran issues, postpartum and pregnancy concerns, hospice and end-of-life matters, and workplace stress. Those topics are woven into goal-oriented sessions when they are relevant.
She speaks English and practices in California as a LCSW.
Client-centered and solution-focused care online
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s experience first. The therapist listens carefully and follows what the client finds most important. This approach helps when someone needs understanding, validation, and a space to figure out next steps.Solution-Focused Therapy looks for small, practical changes that move life in a better direction. Sessions focus on strengths, past successes, and clear goals so people can try steps that fit their daily life. It can be helpful for stress, work problems, and transitions where quick, usable strategies matter.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. That plan can change as progress is made so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and full conversations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not wanted. Live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins, brief problem-solving, or tracking progress between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and busy schedules while keeping the focus on practical steps and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English