About Renee
Renee Rhoades greets people with a calm, down-to-earth approach. She is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - based in Colorado with 18 years of experience. Renee aims to make first steps feel manageable for someone who is worried or overwhelmed.
She helps people facing stress and anxiety, depression, grief, substance concerns, and struggles around intimacy and relationships. She also works with LGBT issues, family conflict, parenting strain, career challenges, and burnout.
Background and approach
Her focus includes a wide range of concerns, from body image and chronic illness to communication and commitment problems. Renee listens for what matters most and adapts conversations to each person. She sets goals together and offers practical ways to cope between sessions.
Expect direct talk, clear steps, and a steady emphasis on strengths you can build on day to day. Her background includes long experience in behavioral health in Colorado. She holds clinical social work credentials listed as LCSW and CSW and has worked across situations that demand both crisis response and longer-term planning.
Renee combines that experience with an attitude of respect and sensitivity. If you want straightforward guidance and someone who tailors sessions to your life, she focuses on meeting you where you are. She encourages small, sustainable changes and will help you map a path forward at a pace that fits your needs.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Renee commonly uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change. One approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. Another approach concentrates on improving communication and emotional understanding to ease relationship and intimacy problems. Each method aims to teach skills you can use between sessions to manage symptoms and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Renee will talk with you about your goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan as you learn what helps most. The work is paced to match your needs, and she will check in often to make sure the methods feel useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let you see facial cues and work closely on skills, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or you prefer not to be on camera, and live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing coaching between longer appointments. These options make scheduling more flexible and help people keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English