Renée Thompson, LCSW

Renée Thompson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 21 years of counseling experience based in Florida. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, self-esteem, relationship concerns, parenting challenges, and life changes. Renée aims to help clients make practical changes that fit their daily lives.

Renée uses a strengths-focused approach that recognizes each person as the expert on their life. She blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with client-centered work to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness techniques are used when people need skills for emotion regulation and staying present.

Her style is direct, empathetic, and nonjudgmental. Sessions often include talking through problems, practicing new ways to cope, and setting small, achievable goals. She offers suggestions and teaches tools clients can use between sessions.

Renée has deep experience supporting people through grief and loss, including loss to suicide, and spent a decade working with hospice and palliative care patients. Her background also includes work with adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness and disability, and body image concerns.

She holds a Florida Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential and has practiced since 2009 in that role. Sessions are offered in English and provided by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. To begin, a simple matching questionnaire and scheduling step connect people with her services according to availability.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. It is practical and often focuses on small experiments and new coping skills that can reduce anxiety, depression, or sleep and eating problems.

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and the client's own goals. That approach is useful when someone needs space to process grief, explore values, and build self-awareness without judgment.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers specific skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness. Those tools are helpful for anger, relationship strain, and strong emotional reactions.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that match those aims, and adjust plans based on what works. This means approaches can be blended and adapted as therapy progresses to meet changing needs.

Online sessions make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations; phone sessions work when internet quality is low or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging can help with quick reflections, ongoing skill practice, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options provide flexibility for different schedules and communication preferences.