About Renee
Renee Wells is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or major life changes. She writes plainly and listens without judgment, making room for whatever someone brings to a session. Her approach aims to help people get unstuck and move toward what matters to them.
With two decades of experience, Renee focuses on common struggles like depression, addictions, self-esteem, and coping after loss. She also supports people dealing with relationship and intimacy-related issues, career stress, and the challenges of parenting and caregiving.
Background and approach
Her work includes help for those managing ADHD, bipolar concerns, sleep and eating problems, and chronic illness or pain. Renee blends practical techniques with attention to how past attachment and trauma shape current behavior. She draws on cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thoughts and uses acceptance strategies to help people live with difficult emotions while pursuing meaningful goals.
Dialectical skills are added when people need stronger tools for emotional regulation. Sessions emphasize collaboration and clear steps people can try between meetings. Renee helps clients build communication skills, set manageable goals, and develop routines that support better sleep, eating, and daily coping.
She also addresses abandonment, adoption and foster care topics, body image, and caregiver stress when those matters come up. Renee practices in Michigan and offers counseling in English. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at helping people make steady progress even when change feels hard.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting trapped by them, and then take action toward values and everyday goals. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going; it is helpful for anxiety, mood concerns, sleep issues, and many everyday stresses.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences and then recommend ways to proceed. That decision is collaborative and can be adjusted as progress is tracked.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a short break or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between meetings or use a format that feels less formal. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain regular contact with a licensed professional.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- 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
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English