- Years in practice
- 21
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Grief
- Focus
- Parenting issues
About Renée
Renée Thompson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Florida who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, and self-esteem concerns. She draws on 21 years of counseling experience to support people dealing with depression, relationship and family issues, anger, sleep or eating struggles, and life transitions. Renée writes plainly and works with practical steps to improve daily life.
Her style focuses on the person's strengths and resilience.
Background and approach
She treats each person as the expert on their life and offers perspective, encouragement, and concrete strategies. Sessions emphasize learning new coping skills, shifting unhelpful thoughts, and practicing changes that fit a busy life. Renée uses a mix of approaches that include client-centered care, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, emotionally-focused ideas, and mindfulness practices.
She often helps people increase self-awareness, manage intense feelings, and find ways to let go of painful thoughts. She has a long history working with grief and loss, including loss to suicide, and has experience with hospice and palliative care.
Her background includes counseling adults across many situations and she has supported people facing caregiving strain, chronic illness, adoption and foster care concerns, blended family issues, and aging-related topics. Renée has been licensed in Florida since 2009 and brings two decades of direct counseling work to sessions.
She aims to help people find more meaning, purpose, and calm, and to make practical changes in a relatively short time frame.
What Renée works with
Everything Renée lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Renée helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Renée lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy centers on the person's priorities and lived experience. The therapist listens closely, reflects what matters to the client, and helps shape goals that feel useful in day-to-day life. This approach is helpful for parents who want practical, personalized support.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Sessions include simple exercises to notice unhelpful thoughts and try new responses. CBT can help with anxiety, low mood, sleep problems, and patterns that get in the way of parenting tasks.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing strong emotions and improving communication. Many people find the skills useful for anger, relationship strain, and intense stress. In online sessions, skills are practiced in conversation and with short between-session exercises.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together they decide which techniques to try first and adjust as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy families. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around school, work, and caregiving duties while still practicing real skills.
Questions people ask about Renée
What kinds of concerns does she address?
Renée works with stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, self-esteem, depression, relationship and family issues, and related topics such as eating, sleeping, anger, and career changes.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her approach is warm and practical. She focuses on strengths, offers encouragement, and helps people practice small changes that add up over time.
What experience does she bring?
She has 21 years of counseling experience, including work with hospice and palliative care, grief and loss, and supporting people through major life transitions.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, licensed in Florida and practices from that state.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She meets via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does cost and payment work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
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