About Renée
Renée Thompson helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, and issues with eating, sleep, anger, and career changes. She also supports those coping with compassion fatigue, ADHD, family conflict, and major life transitions. Renée brings a direct, practical approach and a steady presence to sessions.
She uses the client’s strengths as a starting point and works alongside them to practice new habits.
How Renée works
Renée encourages small, doable steps that add up to real change. Sessions focus on building self-awareness, trying new behaviors, and finding clearer ways to cope with uncomfortable thoughts and feelings. Renée is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, who has practiced in Florida since 2009.
She has over 21 years of counseling experience, including hospice and palliative care work and long experience supporting people through grief and loss. That background informs a calm, steady approach to difficult emotions and crises. Her style is open-minded and non-judgmental.
She offers professional perspective, encouragement, and practical suggestions when useful. Together with the client she identifies goals and benchmarks to measure progress over time. Renée offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, and text messaging.
People start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability. She practices in Florida and conducts sessions in English.
Renée lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Renée works with
The areas below are the ones Renée selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- 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
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How proven approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and strengths. The therapist listens, reflects, and helps the client identify what matters most so they can try new ways of coping. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, trial techniques, and adjust the plan together. That collaborative process makes it easier to pick methods that fit the client’s needs, preferences, and day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging, which lets people choose what works best for each moment. Video is good for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing contact and quick reflections between sessions. These options give flexibility for busy schedules and shifting needs.
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A practical next step
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