Renée Thompson, LCSW

Renée Thompson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Florida with 21 years of counseling experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, parenting strain, relationship and intimacy concerns, sleep and eating issues, anger, ADHD, and midlife changes. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at helping people make practical changes without long delays.

Renée emphasizes a strengths-based approach that treats each person as the expert on their own life. Sessions focus on building self-awareness, tapping into resiliency, and practicing small daily changes that add up. She offers clear feedback, encouragement, and options to try in between meetings.

Her background includes long-term work with hospice and palliative care patients, grief counseling including loss to suicide, and support for caregivers. She helped start the Tampa Bay chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention after a personal loss, and she has worked with children and college students as well as adults over two decades.

Renée uses a mix of clinical approaches such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical skills, emotionally focused ideas, and mindfulness practices. She aims to help people find more meaning, balance, and calm in daily life while keeping goals realistic and time-focused.

People interested in starting can expect a collaborative process where therapist and client decide what to try next. Renée asks practical questions, sets achievable steps, and checks progress regularly to help clients move toward clearer goals.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters to the client. It helps people who need a supportive space to sort out values, goals, and next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and offers specific experiments or exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches practical skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and day-to-day life. Sessions can mix techniques and adjust over time based on what helps most.

The original biography does not specify which online session formats are used here, so confirm the available options before booking. Online care can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. Licensed professionals can use these approaches to guide goal-setting, assign short between-session exercises, and support steady progress while accommodating the realities of everyday life.