Renée Thompson, LCSW
Practical, strengths-based therapy for life challenges
Details
| Name | Renée Thompson |
|---|---|
| Credentials | LCSW |
| Based in | Florida |
| Licensed in | Florida |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English |
| Years in practice | 21 |
About Renée
Renée Thompson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Florida with 21 years of counseling experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship and family concerns, parenting challenges, issues with intimacy, eating and sleeping problems, anger, career transitions, and ADHD.
Her style is warm and practical and she focuses on strengths and resilience to help people make real changes in daily life. Renée centers sessions on the person in front of her and treats clients as the expert on their own lives.
Background and approach
She uses clear, goal-oriented conversations to identify problems and try different ways to cope. Many people come to her wanting quicker, practical shifts; she often focuses on small, repeatable daily choices that add up over time. Her approach blends Narrative Therapy with client-centered listening and cognitive-behavioral techniques.
That mix helps people rewrite the stories they tell about themselves while learning tools to manage thoughts and behaviors. She also draws on elements of dialectical behavior therapy and emotionally focused work when relationships or intense emotions are involved.
Renée has long experience supporting grief and end-of-life concerns, including hospice and palliative care, and has worked with adoption, foster care, blended family issues, body image, chronic illness and caregiving stress. She co-founded the Tampa Bay chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention after a personal loss, and she has particular experience with loss to suicide. Sessions are offered in English.
Renée practices with the aims of helping people increase self-awareness, build coping skills, and move toward more meaning, connection, and peace in their daily lives.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Stress, Anxiety, Grief, Parenting issues among the things Renée works with, alongside the areas below.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- 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
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Renée among the ways she works.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Listed by Renée among the ways she works.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Listed by Renée among the ways she works.
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT): Listed by Renée among the ways she works.
- Mindfulness Therapy: Listed by Renée among the ways she works.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: Listed by Renée among the ways she works.
- Internal Family Systems: Listed by Renée among the ways she works.
- Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Renée directly how much of the work is narrative and what a session usually looks like.
Narrative Therapy in this listing
Narrative Therapy appears in this therapist's own list of approaches. That tells you it is part of how she works. It does not tell you how much of a session it shapes, and this directory does not check or rate training.
If a narrative approach is what you are looking for, it is worth asking Renée directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.
Online session options
Narrative and Practical Tools for Online Care
Renée often draws on Narrative Therapy to help people examine and change the stories they tell about themselves. This approach looks at how personal narratives shape behavior and mood, and it can be useful for grief, identity concerns, relationship patterns, and rebuilding after loss.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Client-centered work emphasizes listening, validation, and helping people tap into their own strengths. CBT offers concrete strategies to notice unhelpful thoughts and experiment with new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep, and stress management.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels practical for their life. Together they try different techniques and adjust the plan as needed to find what helps most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper emotional work. Phone sessions can be a good option when internet bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief updates, skills practice, or when people prefer written interaction. These formats aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
Common questions about this listing
What concerns does Renée help with?
She supports people managing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting worries, relationship and family issues, eating or sleeping problems, anger, career changes, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is warm, practical, and person-centered. She listens first, then helps set clear goals and tries small, workable changes.
What is her professional background?
She has 21 years of counseling experience and over a decade working with hospice and palliative care patients and families. She co-founded the Tampa Bay chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, FL LCSW, practicing in Florida.
Which languages are supported and are international clients taken?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions may be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or through text-based messaging.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How does someone begin working with her?
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