Renée Thompson , LCSW

Renée Thompson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Florida who brings 21 years of counseling experience to her practice. She emphasizes practical change and steady progress, encouraging clients to practice being the person they want to become. Her approach highlights strengths and resilience, recognizing each individual as the expert on their own life while offering professional guidance to explore new perspectives and coping strategies.

Renée helps clients increase self-awareness, tap internal resources, and learn ways to release or tolerate distressing thoughts and feelings. She has worked extensively with end-of-life patients, college students, children, couples, and families, and she offers professional insight, encouragement, and possible solutions designed to help clients move forward and regain a better quality of life. Her experience includes ten years counseling hospice and palliative care patients and their families, and she has worked with children since 2002.

Renée is recognized for her expertise in grief counseling and loss to suicide, and she co-founded the Tampa Bay Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention in response to personal loss. She earned graduate honors, graduating magna cum laude, and has held her LCSW credential in Florida since 2009. Since May 2020 she has provided online therapy and continues to support clients through a range of life challenges with empathy, openness, and a nonjudgmental stance.

Client-Focused Approaches for Online Support

Client-centered therapy invites clients to lead the conversation while the therapist offers empathy, validation, and support. This approach helps people who want a strengths-based, collaborative space to explore identity, relationships, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and patterns and practicing practical skills to change thinking and behavior. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many everyday challenges. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, combines skills training in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness to help clients manage intense emotions and improve relationships.

Choosing the right approach is part of therapy itself. Renée works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting strategies as progress is made. This collaborative process helps ensure treatment matches what the client finds most helpful.

Online therapy offers flexibility to meet from home or on the go. Sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, allowing clients to fit care into busy schedules and access licensed professionals when in-person visits are difficult. These options make it easier to maintain momentum and practice new skills between sessions.