Renee Wells, LPC
Compassionate counselor who focuses on personal stories
Details
| Name | Renee Wells |
|---|---|
| Credentials | LPC |
| Based in | Michigan |
| Licensed in | Michigan |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English |
| Years in practice | 20 |
About Renee
Renee Wells is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 20 years in the mental health field. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and difficulties with relationships and intimacy. Her tone in sessions is warm and nonjudgmental so people can speak honestly about what’s on their mind.
Renee centers her work on each person’s story. She listens for the life events that shape how someone sees themselves and their choices.
Background and approach
From there she helps people notice patterns, try new ways of responding, and build practical skills for day-to-day life. Her approach blends narrative ideas with skills-based methods. That means she pays attention to the stories people tell about themselves while also teaching tools to calm anxiety, manage mood swings, and handle strong emotions.
She aims for straightforward techniques that people can use between sessions. Renee has particular experience supporting people dealing with trauma, grief, addiction concerns, and parenting stress. She also works with clients facing chronic illness, caregiving burden, body image struggles, and career-related strain.
Her background includes twenty years of clinical practice in Michigan. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Renee emphasizes clear goals and small steps that lead to change.
She welcomes questions about how therapy will proceed and what a typical session looks like.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and abuse, Grief among the things Renee works with, alongside the areas below.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Listed by Renee among the ways she works.
- Attachment-Based Therapy: Listed by Renee among the ways she works.
- Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Renee among the ways she works.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Listed by Renee among the ways she works.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Listed by Renee among the ways she works.
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT): Listed by Renee among the ways she works.
- Existential Therapy: Listed by Renee among the ways she works.
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Listed by Renee among the ways she works.
- Gottman Method: Listed by Renee among the ways she works.
- Imago Relationship Therapy: Listed by Renee among the ways she works.
- Mindfulness Therapy: Listed by Renee among the ways she works.
- Motivational Interviewing: Listed by Renee among the ways she works.
- Psychodynamic Therapy: Listed by Renee among the ways she works.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: Listed by Renee among the ways she works.
- Somatic Therapy: Listed by Renee among the ways she works.
- Trauma-Focused Therapy: Listed by Renee among the ways she works.
- Internal Family Systems: Listed by Renee among the ways she works.
- Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Renee 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 Renee directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.
Online session options
How narrative work and skills-based therapy translate online
Renee blends Narrative ideas with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-based thinking. Narrative-informed work focuses on the stories people tell about themselves and looks for alternative plotlines that open new choices. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) teaches ways to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck and to move toward what matters. Attachment-based approaches look at how early relationships shape reactions and help people build steadier ways of relating.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as progress is made.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that helps, phone sessions can be a good short check-in or work better when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit brief updates or people who prefer typing. These options give flexibility for scheduling and allow consistent contact from anywhere in Michigan where the client is located.
Common questions about this listing
What concerns does Renee commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, addictions, and relationship or intimacy-related issues, among other concerns listed in her specialty areas.
What is her general style in therapy?
Her style is collaborative and non-judgmental. She listens for each person’s story and blends listening with practical skills to manage emotions and behaviors.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 20 years of experience working in the mental health field and has practiced in Michigan for many years.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, abbreviated LPC, and practices in Michigan.
In which language are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English and she does not accept international clients.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How are costs and billing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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