About Renee
Renee Joyce is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who brings 13 years of clinical experience to her work in Colorado. She meets adults where they are and helps them make real changes.
Background and approach
Her style is practical, direct, and compassionate, aimed at helping people feel steadier and more capable in daily life. Renee focuses on common stressors like anxiety, burnout, and depression.
She also supports people processing trauma, grief, and identity questions. Many clients seek help with relationship concerns, intimacy issues, parenting challenges, or career transitions.
Her sessions are collaborative and action oriented. Renee listens closely, then helps clients identify small, manageable steps.
She uses tools to improve communication, manage intense emotions, and build self-worth. Renee integrates therapies that target attachment patterns, emotional regulation, and trauma recovery.
That can mean learning new coping skills from dialectical behavior therapy techniques, working through painful memories with EMDR-informed strategies, or strengthening how you relate to others using attachment principles. People who work with Renee often want clear goals and practical tools.
Some reach short-term aims in a few sessions. Others choose longer work to address deeper trauma or identity development.
Sessions are tailored to each person’s rhythm and needs. Renee aims to create a respectful, validating space where exploration and problem solving happen side by side.
She invites clients to try small changes, notice what helps, and build toward a life that feels more authentic and manageable.
How approach and access come together online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect current connection. It helps people understand why they react a certain way in relationships and teaches different ways to connect. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own goals and experience, with the therapist offering empathy and reflection to help clients find their own solutions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Renee will discuss different methods and collaborate with each person to decide what fits best. That choice is based on the client's needs, goals, and preferences, and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy here is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video sessions let people work face to face when time and bandwidth allow. Phone sessions are useful when someone needs a shorter check-in or has less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging are helpful for brief support, ongoing processing between sessions, or when written reflection feels easier. These options are intended to make it simpler to get consistent, goal-focused help without rearranging a whole day.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English