About Renee
Renee Marter is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing addictions, trauma, parenting strain, anger, and bipolar challenges. She speaks plainly and listens closely to understand what matters to each person. Her style is practical and steady, aimed at small, doable changes rather than dramatic fixes.
Renee draws on ten years of experience as an LCSW in New Jersey. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage mood symptoms, reduce harmful patterns, and build healthier habits.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on learning new coping tools and improving everyday interactions. People often come for help with attachment wounds, adoption and foster care concerns, caregiver stress, chronic health challenges, or difficulties with boundaries and commitment. She also addresses issues like codependency, body image, and navigating alternative relationship or sexual cultures when these areas are part of someone’s struggles.
Therapy with Renee typically includes practical skill-building, clear communication work, and support for processing painful events. She helps clients notice unhelpful patterns and try new ways of responding. The work moves at a pace that fits each person’s needs.
Renee offers sessions in English and provides therapy through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. She aims to make therapy fit into busy lives by using flexible formats and straightforward goals. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that works for them.
How evidence-based methods translate to online care
Renee often uses practical, evidence-based techniques that teach skills people can use every day. One common approach focuses on building coping strategies to reduce addictive behaviors and manage intense emotions; it involves identifying triggers, practicing alternative responses, and tracking progress over time. Another approach centers on trauma-informed care, which helps people process painful events at a pace they can handle while learning ways to feel more stable in daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Renee will review your concerns, goals, and preferences and suggest methods that fit your needs. The selection of techniques is collaborative and can change as progress is made or priorities shift.
Online therapy formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins or ongoing tracking between sessions. These options make it easier to keep consistent contact and bring therapy into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English