Renée Thompson, LCSW

Renée Thompson, LCSW, helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and self-esteem struggles. She offers straightforward support for depression, anger, sleep and eating concerns, career stress, ADHD, and coping with major life changes. Her tone is direct and encouraging for someone ready to try something different.

Renée centers sessions on the person's strengths and resilience. She treats each client as the expert on their own life and focuses on practical steps for change. Expect clear perspectives, encouragement, and possible strategies to try between meetings.

With more than 21 years of counseling experience, Renée draws on a mix of approaches to meet real problems. She uses elements from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral methods, dialectical behavior ideas, emotionally focused techniques, and mindfulness practices. Those tools are used to increase self-awareness, manage uncomfortable thoughts, and build new coping skills.

Her background includes long-term work with grief and loss, hospice and palliative care, and supporting people affected by suicide. She helped start the Tampa Bay chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and has decades of experience working with children and adults in varied settings.

Renée is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Florida (LCSW) and has practiced in the state since 2009. She aims to help people find more meaning, purpose, and calm in daily life, and she typically focuses on making measurable progress in a limited time frame.

How her approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead, helping people feel heard and understood while they set their own goals. This approach is helpful for relationship worries, parenting stress, and building self-esteem.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and managing daily stress.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication. It can be useful when strong emotions or relationship conflicts make everyday life harder.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences rather than imposing a single model. That process may include trying techniques from different approaches and keeping what helps most.

For practical online therapy details, confirm the current session formats before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit appointments around work, caregiving, or school by cutting travel time. Some sessions can be shorter check-ins, and others can use guided exercises or mindfulness practices that fit into a normal day. Licensed professionals can adapt these approaches to online meetings to focus on real-life changes and skill building.