About Renee
Renee Kerns offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or low self-esteem. She meets clients where they are and focuses on small, achievable steps that fit daily life. Renee is a licensed clinical mental health counselor, LCMHC, practicing in North Carolina with 14 years of experience.
Renee helps clients sort through relationship and family concerns, workplace stress, and the challenges that come with caregiving and health crises like cancer.
How Renee works
She also works with people dealing with trauma and abuse, parenting strains, and the particular transitions of young adulthood. Her aim is to help people find clearer choices and regain a sense of control. Her style is warm and collaborative.
She listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps clients set concrete goals. Sessions often focus on practical problem solving, building self-compassion, and improving communication skills. Renee draws on client-centered therapy to follow each person's priorities, motivational interviewing to help resolve ambivalence, and solution-focused techniques to identify quick, useful changes.
Over 14 years she has supported many people through loss, caregiving burden, workplace issues, and shifting family roles. People who work with her can expect straightforward conversation and tools they can use between sessions. She emphasizes respect, steady pacing, and choices that make sense for each person's life and schedule.
Renee lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Renee works with
The areas below are the ones Renee selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
How Renee’s approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client’s lead. The therapist reflects what the client says, helps clarify feelings, and supports whatever goals the person chooses. This approach is useful for people who want a gentle, nonjudgmental space to sort things out.Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or mixed about change. It uses conversational techniques to explore different options, strengthen motivation, and plan small steps. This method can help with behavior shifts, career moves, or managing health-related choices.
Solution-focused techniques target quick, practical changes. Sessions often identify what already works, set clear short-term goals, and try small experiments between meetings. That can be especially helpful for time-limited issues like workplace problems, communication breakdowns, or coping with a recent loss.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Renee will talk about goals and preferences, try approaches that match the situation, and adjust plans based on how things go. The client and therapist decide together what feels most useful.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different needs. Video is good for face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports short updates or ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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