About Renee
Renee Lewis is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with decades of experience. She brings 42 years in the field to conversations about mood, stress, and relationship strain. She aims to meet people where they are and build a clear plan together.
Renee focuses on practical problems that make daily life harder. She helps with depression, anxiety, trouble sleeping, and stress from work or caregiving. She also supports people managing attention and focus concerns commonly described as ADHD.
Background and approach
Her approach is straightforward and structured. Sessions often include clear goals, problem-solving steps, and homework to practice new skills between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is a frequent tool she uses to help people change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Renee pays attention to relationship concerns such as communication problems, divorce and separation, and infidelity. She also works with issues tied to trauma and grief, including post-traumatic stress and compassion fatigue. She adapts conversations to each person’s situation and pace.
Clients can expect a respectful, calm tone in sessions. Renee explains options and helps people choose strategies that fit their life. She encourages small, steady changes that add up over time.
CBT and practical approaches for online care
Renee often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, which helps people notice and change thoughts and actions that contribute to distress. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and patterns that get in the way of daily functioning.The therapist’s approach emphasizes straightforward skill-building and problem solving. Sessions may include goal setting, simple behavioral experiments, and short exercises to practice between meetings. Together the client and therapist decide which strategies feel most useful and adjust as needed to fit personal goals and routines.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls work well for conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief updates or ongoing reflections between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while maintaining continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 42 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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