About Renee
Renee Wells is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 20 years of experience. She works with people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, or past trauma. Her approach is calm and non-judgmental so clients can speak honestly about hard things.
She focuses on helping people move past fears that get in the way of daily life. That can mean managing mood problems like depression or bipolar symptoms, coping with loss, or facing challenges such as addiction and compassion fatigue.
How Renee works
She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, intimacy questions, parenting stress, and career changes. In sessions she mixes practical skills and present-moment work. Renee uses tools from cognitive approaches to spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
She also draws on acceptance-focused methods to help people make room for difficult feelings and live according to their values. Attachment ideas guide work on closeness, communication, and patterns that repeat in relationships. When life includes chronic illness, caregiving demands, or transitions such as adoption or aging, she aims to make treatment realistic and manageable.
Renee offers a collaborative style that centers the client’s goals. She meets clients where they are and helps build step-by-step plans for change. Her background and steady manner are meant to make it easier to tackle painful topics and practical problems.
Renee lists 18 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- 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
- Control issues
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- 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
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings and still move toward what matters to them. It teaches simple practices for staying present and choosing actions that match personal values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve functioning. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and mood shifts.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and day-to-day routine, then suggest methods to try. That plan can shift as progress is made, and clients are invited to give feedback about what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful when visual connection matters, while phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates, coaching, and follow-up between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and busy schedules while keeping treatment consistent and goal-focused.
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