About Renita
Renita Harrigan is a Licensed Professional Counselor who draws on practical, experience-based methods to help people handle stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. She writes plainly and listens closely so a person can talk about what matters without feeling judged. Renita keeps sessions focused on real-life problems and next steps people can try between meetings.
With 12 years of counseling experience, she has supported people facing relationship and family difficulties, communication problems, parenting strains, and career transitions.
Background and approach
She also helps those coping with compassion fatigue, first responder issues, and questions about life purpose and self-love. Her approach aims to make everyday challenges feel more manageable. Sessions typically involve talking through current struggles, identifying patterns that cause pain, and practicing skills to respond differently.
She helps clients set small, clear goals and track progress over time. The emphasis is on practical changes that fit a person’s life. Renita works with adults in Alabama and offers several remote session formats to suit busy schedules.
She encourages honesty and steady effort, and she partners with each person to tailor the pace and focus of therapy. Taking the first step is often the hardest part, and she aims to make that step easier to take. Background and approach: Renita is licensed as an LPC in Alabama.
Over a dozen years of work in counseling has given her experience with blended family issues, forgiveness work, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. She favors clear communication, manageable homework, and straightforward problem-solving during sessions.
Therapeutic approaches and how online therapy fits
Renita uses straightforward, evidence-based techniques to help people change patterns that cause stress and relationship strain. One common approach focuses on teaching practical coping skills for anxiety and depression, such as structured breathing, activity scheduling, and short behavior changes that reduce overwhelm. This helps when daily worries or low mood make it hard to get things done.She also works on communication and relationship skills, teaching ways to express needs, set boundaries, and repair misunderstandings. These methods are useful for blended family issues, recurring arguments, and rebuilding trust after conflict. A third focus is grief and trauma recovery, which proceeds at a careful pace and prioritizes safety and small gains.
Finding the right mix of approaches is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped in the past, then adjust techniques as progress is made. That way the plan stays practical and relevant to daily life.
Online appointments are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are good when visual cues help the conversation. Phone sessions can fit a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging can work for quick check-ins, ongoing support, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, family, or other commitments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English