Renee Lewis
Calm, practical therapy for life and family challenges
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 42 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Renee
Renee Lewis is a licensed marriage and family therapist with decades of experience in California. She focuses on practical support for people facing relationship strain, trauma and abuse, depression, and attention concerns like ADHD. Her tone is respectful and calm, aimed at people who need clear help and steady guidance.
Renee keeps conversations straightforward. She listens first and adapts therapy to what the person actually needs. She aims for realistic steps that fit a client’s daily life instead of long abstract plans.
Background and approach
That approach helps with sleep problems, stress, and low mood. Her work often addresses how communication and patterns shape problems at home and work. Topics she commonly supports include parenting challenges, grief, anger, workplace issues, and relationship breakdowns such as divorce or infidelity.
She also helps people coping with major life changes and compassion fatigue. Renee uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. She applies it in ways that match each person’s situation and goals.
Sessions may include exercises to try between meetings to build new habits. People who reach out can expect a steady, experienced practitioner who values sensitivity and practical solutions. She meets clients where they are and works with them to find manageable ways forward.
For those in California ready to begin, she guides them through the first steps toward scheduling.
CBT and online care that fits your life
Renee uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions influence one another. CBT helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns, try small behavior changes, and develop skills to manage mood, anxiety, sleep, and stress.She adapts CBT exercises to each person’s situation, so homework and practice feel useful and practical. The therapist works collaboratively with clients to choose which techniques to try first based on their goals and day-to-day demands. Figuring out the best approach is part of the work together rather than a one-size-fits-all prescription.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. These options make it easier to fit meetings around school, work, or parenting duties and to continue support when travel or schedules change. Many people find that a mix of video and messaging helps maintain momentum between sessions while keeping therapy manageable.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 42 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Renee
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point