Renée Thompson

Renée Thompson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Florida. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting strain, relationship and intimacy issues, and struggles with self-esteem. Renée also supports those dealing with sleep and eating concerns, anger, career stress, ADHD, and major life changes.

Renée emphasizes practical change. She works from a strengths-based, client-centered stance and treats the person as the expert on their life. Sessions focus on finding small, doable steps that lead to better daily functioning and more emotional balance. She uses straightforward conversation, problem-solving, and exercises to build new coping skills.

Her background includes more than 20 years of counseling work and 21 years of overall experience. She has extensive experience with grief and loss, including loss to suicide, and has counseled hospice and palliative care patients and their families. Renée helped start the Tampa Bay chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention because of her personal and professional commitment to this work.

Renée draws on a range of approaches, including cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior ideas, emotionally focused work, mindfulness, and a client-centered orientation. She aims to increase self-awareness, build resilience, and practice new ways of responding to difficult thoughts and feelings. Her style is open-minded, empathetic, and nonjudgmental.

She invites clients to set goals together and to try concrete strategies between sessions. Renée encourages people to take the first step toward change and offers steady support while they practice new skills and perspectives.

Approaches that translate to online work

Renée commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness alongside a client-centered approach. Cognitive behavioral methods look at the link between thoughts, feelings and actions and teach practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness-based ideas focus on noticing thoughts and bodily sensations to reduce reactivity and improve emotion regulation. A client-centered stance means the therapist follows the client's pace and priorities, offering support and feedback tailored to each person's goals.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Renée will discuss what matters most to the client and try methods that fit their goals and preferences. Together they can adjust strategies over time to find what feels most helpful.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and let conversations continue across geographic distances. Licensed professionals use these approaches to help people practice new skills between sessions and apply them to daily routines.