About Renee
Renee Lafriniere offers calm, steady support for people facing hard moments. She helps with anxiety, depression, grief, relationship stress, career questions, and changes that feel overwhelming. Renee is a Florida licensed mental health counselor - LMHC - and holds LPCC, and she brings 25 years of experience to her work.
She aims for straightforward sessions. Conversations focus on what is happening now and practical steps that feel doable. Renee listens for patterns in thinking and behavior, then helps people try small changes that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Her approach blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques. That means sessions are shaped around each person's goals, and she offers tools to change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Clients often work on communication skills, coping with loss, and managing mood swings.
Renee also supports people through life transitions such as aging, caregiving, end-of-life concerns, and career shifts. She pays attention to how culture and identity affect stress and meaning in life. Sessions can include coaching elements when someone needs clearer steps forward.
People meet her for short-term problem solving or longer work on deeper patterns. Sessions use plain language and a practical focus, with room for emotion and reflection. The aim is clearer choices, steadier moods, and better day-to-day functioning.
Online approaches that focus on practical change
Client-centered therapy puts the person and their goals first. Sessions focus on understanding each person's experience and building a collaborative plan to meet their needs. This approach is useful for people needing emotional support, clearer decision-making, or help with identity and life purpose.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It breaks problems into manageable steps and teaches tools for anxiety, depression, anger, and mood regulation. CBT is often chosen when someone wants concrete strategies to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Renee will talk with clients about goals and preferences and try methods that fit their situation. The process is collaborative, and approaches can be adjusted as progress is made to better match what helps most.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a deeper connection is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers no camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, between-session reflection, or ongoing coaching-style contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work through transitions and unexpected challenges.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- 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