About Renee
Renee Shacochis, MD, LCSW-C, helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or life changes. She also supports parents facing parenting strain and people managing relationship conflict, anger, or work-related stress. Renee works with adults and has ten years of clinical experience in Maryland.
She uses a client-centered approach that starts with listening and building trust. From there she helps people set goals that matter to them.
Background and approach
Renee draws on several approaches depending on the person’s needs, including cognitive behavioral tools, mindfulness practices, dialectical skills, narrative work, and supportive psychodynamic ideas. Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer thinking. For example, she might help you spot unhelpful thinking patterns, try new ways of responding under stress, or use mindful exercises to reduce reactivity.
Conversations also look at personal stories to find strengths and options for change. Renee has provided individual, group, and family work across a range of problems for ten years. Her training includes a Master of Social Work with a clinical concentration and clinical social work licensure in Maryland.
She combines that background with a respectful, strengths-based style. She offers therapy via video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. If scheduling is tight, messaging can be used to discuss options and find a convenient plan.
Renee aims to move at a pace that feels productive and comfortable for each person.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a strong working relationship. Online sessions use that core skill to help people feel heard while they set goals and try out new behaviors. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns; it maps well to remote sessions where worksheets and behavioral experiments can be assigned between meetings. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness, using short skills coaching and practice that can be reinforced via messaging between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean combining elements from different approaches and adjusting as progress is made, with regular check-ins about what is or isn’t working.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and skill practice, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging is good for brief check-ins or quick skill reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work between live sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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