About Renee
Renee Lafriniere is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. She listens without rush and focuses on practical steps clients can try between sessions. Renee brings 25 years of experience to each meeting and aims to make therapy feel usable and straightforward.
Renee uses clear conversation to find what matters most to each person. She helps clients build better communication, manage mood symptoms, and sort through relationship or career decisions.
Background and approach
Her work often addresses addiction, trauma, parenting strain, and the fatigue that comes from caregiving roles. She also supports people dealing with aging and end-of-life concerns, blended family issues, cancer-related stress, and postpartum changes. When complex emotions like shame, guilt, or isolation appear, she helps clients name and work through those feelings.
Renee pays attention to multicultural factors that shape a person’s experience. Renee combines client-centered methods with cognitive behavioral techniques to make changes feel concrete. Sessions can include problem-solving, behavior experiments, and reflection on personal values.
She helps people map small steps that fit their daily life. Working with Renee is collaborative. She helps clients set realistic goals and adjusts the plan as needs change.
People come away with clearer priorities and tools to cope with life’s ups and downs.
How Renee's Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person's experience and priorities. In this approach the therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps clients identify goals that feel important. It is useful for emotional support, relationship concerns, life purpose questions, and navigating transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses straightforward techniques such as identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing them in real life, and practicing new behaviors. This approach is often helpful for anxiety, depression, mood disorders, and managing stress or compulsive patterns.
Figuring out which approach fits best is part of the work. Renee will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs and preferences, and she will adjust the plan as progress is made. The decision is shared and flexible rather than fixed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for conversations that benefit from visual cues, while phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging allow for brief updates, coaching-style support, or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue care across different circumstances.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Washington, California
- Languages
- English