About Renee
Renee Jaxel helps people facing stress, anxiety, problems with sleep, low self-esteem, and life transitions. She also offers coaching around motivation, confidence, and moving through midlife or career shifts. Renee is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - practicing in Nevada and brings ten years of experience to her work.
Renee keeps sessions straightforward and focused. She treats each person as the expert on their life and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Conversations are practical and goal-oriented, aimed at small, doable changes rather than long lectures. Her background includes supporting people through medical and caregiving challenges, chronic pain, and end-of-life concerns. She has worked with those affected by substance use, first responder stress, and veteran-related issues.
Financial stress and finding purpose in midlife are also areas she addresses. Sessions may focus on improving sleep routines, managing panic and mood symptoms, or learning skills to reduce daily stress. She blends coaching with therapeutic strategies to help clients meet immediate needs and plan longer-term goals.
Renee tailors the pace and focus to each person’s situation. Renee communicates in English and practices from Nevada. She encourages people to take small steps toward change and supports them as they try new ways of coping.
Her style is empathetic, direct, and practical.
Practical approaches for online therapy and recovery
Renee uses evidence-based techniques that focus on clear skills and real-life changes. One common approach helps people learn concrete coping skills for anxiety and panic - breathing, grounding, and step-by-step exposure to reduce fear and regain control. Another approach emphasizes behavior and routine changes to improve sleep and mood, such as adjusting habits, activity planning, and simple sleep hygiene strategies.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Renee collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and daily life. Together they try techniques, measure what helps, and adjust the plan as needed so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual connection, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging can support quick check-ins, coaching prompts, or short progress updates between longer meetings. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Sleeping disorders
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First responder issues
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Nevada
- Languages
- English