About Renette
Renette Herrera is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with 13 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, parenting stress, relationship problems, trauma, ADHD, and mood challenges. Renette focuses on meeting clients where they are and building practical steps forward.
Renette uses a person-centered style that keeps the client's goals in view. She often brings in tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and practice new habits.
How Renette works
She also draws from acceptance and commitment strategies to help people live with difficult feelings while moving toward what matters to them. Sessions tend to be warm and interactive. Renette aims to create a calm space for hard conversations and to treat clients with respect and compassion.
She listens, reflects, and works with each person to set concrete, achievable goals that fit their life. Renette has experience helping people with grief, intimacy-related issues, anger, self-esteem struggles, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes.
Her additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment concerns, blended family issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, communication challenges, divorce and separation, domestic violence, substance problems, family of origin issues, first responder stress, post-traumatic stress, and social anxiety. People who want practical tools, steady support, and a collaborative approach may find her style helpful.
She accepts clients in English and offers sessions in several online formats to fit busy schedules.
Renette lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Renette works with
The areas below are the ones Renette selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How Renette’s Approaches Work Online
Renette commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness practices in her online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional balance.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy when appropriate, which helps people notice difficult feelings without getting stuck and then take action toward the life they value. Choosing which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist and client talk about goals, try methods in sessions, and adjust based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers a range of ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for in-depth work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing skill practice, or when a written conversation fits a schedule better. These formats give flexibility to fit therapy into busy lives and make it simpler to maintain continuity between sessions.
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