About Rene
Rene Elsbury welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or big life changes. She works with individuals facing relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career questions, and the fallout of trauma or abuse. Rene uses clear, direct support to help people take practical steps forward.
She focuses on improving communication and building stronger coping skills. Sessions often look at patterns from family of origin, boundaries, and how past hurts show up now.
How Rene works
Rene also helps with body image worries, issues around sexuality, and recovery after sexual assault. Rene brings seven years of clinical experience as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, or LCSW, practicing in Indiana. She draws on several well-known approaches to shape treatment in ways that fit each person’s needs.
Therapy is collaborative and paced to what someone can manage right now. In sessions she blends practical techniques with mindful awareness. That can mean learning tools to manage difficult thoughts and emotions, practicing new ways to communicate, or processing trauma memories when someone is ready.
The aim is steady improvement rather than quick fixes. People can expect straightforward conversation, goal-focused planning, and hands-on skills to use between sessions. Rene supports exploration of life purpose, managing co-occurring issues, and reducing self-harm urges through structured work and steady encouragement.
Rene lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Rene works with
The areas below are the ones Rene selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Indiana |
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Online support options
How Rene’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a plan around the person’s goals. It helps when someone needs a safe space to be heard and to sort out next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches clear tools to challenge unhelpful patterns and manage symptoms. EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a trauma-focused approach that helps process painful memories when someone is ready and can reduce their emotional intensity.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Rene will discuss options and try methods that match a person’s needs, goals, and comfort level. That collaborative process means adjustments over time until a good fit is found.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can fit a busy schedule or require less bandwidth. Live chat or messaging works well for brief check-ins, skill practice, and ongoing support between meetings.
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