About Renee
Renee Lewis is a California-based licensed marriage and family therapist with over four decades of clinical experience. She focuses on making therapy straightforward and practical, helping people who are dealing with relationship strain, trauma, depression, anxiety, ADHD-related focus problems, and work or life stress.
Background and approach
Her sessions aim to be respectful and compassionate. Renee adapts conversations and plans to fit each person's needs, using clear language and concrete steps rather than jargon.
She encourages small changes that add up over time. Renee uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
She also addresses grief, sleep trouble, anger, self-esteem, and challenges related to parenting, workplace issues, and women’s concerns. Additional focuses include communication problems, divorce and separation, infidelity, and post-traumatic stress.
With a long career behind her, Renee draws on many years of practical work with people facing life transitions, compassion fatigue, bipolar mood concerns, and seasonal mood shifts. Sessions are offered in English and reflect an emphasis on sensible strategies that can be applied between appointments.
If someone is ready to begin, Renee invites them to take a step and complete the intake process. She frames the first sessions as a way to understand goals, test approaches, and build a short-term plan that fits daily life.
CBT approaches and online options for everyday problems
Renee uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thinking and try different actions. CBT breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and it works well for anxiety, depression, stress, sleep issues, and concentration difficulties.The right approach is a team decision. She will work with each person to figure out which techniques fit their goals and daily life, and make adjustments as progress is tracked. That collaboration helps shape a short-term plan and practical homework to try between sessions.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are useful for a full conversation with visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter check-in fits a work break. Live chat and text messaging can support quick check-ins, brief tools, or ongoing encouragement between scheduled sessions. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent with a busy schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
Also works with
- 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