About Renee
Renee DeVuyst uses a client-centered approach as the foundation of her work. She focuses on empathy, genuineness, and helping people feel understood while they face stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, grief, and life transitions. Renee is a licensed mental health counselor with 18 years of experience based in New York.
She combines client-centered care with practical strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing. That means sessions often include listening deeply, reflecting back what is happening, and offering concrete tools for managing thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Renee also brings solution-focused ideas to help people set short-term goals and notice progress. Renee has supported people through trauma, domestic violence, and sexual abuse, and she has experience working with substance use and process addictions. She also helps with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, sleep and eating concerns, burnout, and career stress.
Her practice addresses a wide range of emotional and behavioral challenges, including bipolar symptoms and ADHD-related struggles. Her style is engaged and direct. She validates feelings and also challenges patterns that get in the way of change.
Sessions can include practical exercises, brief behavior strategies, and collaborative planning for next steps. Renee offers therapy by video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. People who choose her often want a mix of understanding and actionable techniques to cope with life changes and to build self-compassion and resilience.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy centers on listening closely and reflecting what a person expresses. It helps people feel understood and clarifies current struggles, which can reduce isolation and open a path to change. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying thought and behavior patterns and practicing small changes that improve mood and daily functioning, useful for anxiety, depression, sleep, and addictive behaviors.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Renee will collaborate with the client to learn about their goals, preferences, and daily reality, then recommend techniques that match those needs. This is a team process where methods are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and working through exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when a quieter moment or less bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or a way to communicate when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make therapy more flexible and often easier to fit into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English