Therapist profile
Renée Thompson, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker - Family and parenting focus
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- Grief and loss
- Parenting concerns
- CBT and mindfulness
About Renée
Renée Thompson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Florida with 21 years of counseling experience. She focuses on everyday struggles that affect life at home, including stress, anxiety, grief, parenting concerns, depression, relationship and family matters, and self-esteem. Renée also addresses eating and sleeping issues, anger, career stresses, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related challenges.
Her approach centers on practical change. She treats the person in front of her as the expert on their life and works alongside them to practice new ways of coping. Sessions aim to increase self-awareness, strengthen internal resources, and try out different perspectives or behaviors. Expect concrete suggestions and skills to use between meetings.
Renée draws on Client-Centered methods, cognitive techniques, emotion-focused work, mindfulness, and skills originally developed within dialectical behavior frameworks. She uses these approaches to help people manage intense emotions, shift unhelpful thinking, and improve communication around family and intimate concerns. Those approaches also inform grief and loss work, including loss to suicide.
She has experience with adoption and foster care issues, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, aging and geriatric concerns, autism, body image, codependency, and the aftermath of separation and divorce. Her background includes a decade counseling hospice and palliative care patients and more than a decade working with children in various settings.
Sessions are conducted in English and she practices in Florida as an LCSW. Renée does not accept international clients. Before booking, confirm current session formats and practical arrangements through the platform's scheduling flow.
How sessions work
Therapeutic approaches used during online sessions
Renée often uses Client-Centered Therapy to keep sessions focused on the client's perspective and priorities. This approach involves listening closely, reflecting what matters to the person, and supporting their own decisions and goals.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT provides practical exercises and homework that help with anxiety, depression, sleep, and coping with stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills appear in her work to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, which can help with anger, relationship strain, and intense feelings.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try techniques, and adjust methods based on the client's needs, goals, and preferences. Clients and therapist decide together what to focus on and which skills to practice between sessions.
The original biography does not list specific online session formats. Please confirm current session options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy household routine, allow shorter check-in meetings when needed, or reduce travel time so sessions fit around work and family responsibilities.
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Experience
21+ years
Listed in
Florida
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of home and family concerns does she address?
She works with stress, parenting worries, relationship and family issues, intimacy-related problems, and related concerns such as anger and communication problems.
How does she approach therapy sessions?
Her style is practical and collaborative. She focuses on skills, mindfulness, and changing unhelpful thoughts while supporting clients to try new behaviors between sessions.
How much clinical experience does she bring?
She has 21 years of counseling experience and spent ten years working with hospice and palliative care patients, plus long-term work with children in various settings.
What are her credentials and where does she practice?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Florida and practices from Florida.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. She does not accept international clients.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not list specific session formats. Please confirm the current session options before booking.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session through the platform.
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