Renée Thompson
Compassionate family-focused therapy
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Renée
Renée Thompson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Florida who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship issues. She offers straightforward, strengths-based care that helps parents and family members name problems and try practical steps to improve daily life. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental and she emphasizes steady, doable change over time.
Renée draws on more than two decades of counseling experience to help people cope with losses, caregiving strain, and transitions.
Background and approach
She has specialized experience with grief and loss, including loss to suicide, and has substantial background working with hospice and palliative care patients and their families. Her work also includes support for challenges like sleep and eating problems, self-esteem struggles, anger, and compassion fatigue. Sessions mix listening with concrete tools.
She uses approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to target unhelpful thinking and improve emotion regulation. Mindfulness practices and client-centered conversation help clients notice strengths and try new behaviors at home. Renée has been licensed as an LCSW in Florida since 2009 and brings 21 years of clinical practice to her work.
She helped found the Tampa Bay Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention after a personal loss, and she has long experience supporting children, families, and end-of-life care situations. Her aim is to help people find more meaning, stronger relationships, and better daily coping. She encourages practical steps and collaboration so families can move toward the life they want.
Therapeutic approaches for online family and parenting support
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and recognizing the client as the expert on their life. It helps parents and family members feel heard and develop their own solutions through empathic support.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It offers practical exercises for changing unhelpful thinking and improving behavior, which can help with anxiety, depression, and parenting stress.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. It includes techniques for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication in family contexts.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person or family to weigh needs, goals, and preferences, and then adapts methods over time. That way sessions stay focused and relevant to what the client wants to change.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules, continue work during life transitions, and check in between meetings. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, review progress, and support practical changes at home.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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