About Rene
Rene Liberty is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with eight years of experience helping people facing relationship struggles, family tensions, anxiety, depression, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. She listens closely to each person's story and offers practical feedback to help chart a next step.
Many clients seek her help for stress, addictions, sleep problems, career transitions, and coping with life changes. Rene centers sessions on respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
Background and approach
She adapts conversations and plans to match what each person needs in the moment. Short-term goals and concrete steps are common, along with time to reflect on deeper patterns. Her approach draws on client-centered work that focuses on the person's experience and values.
She also uses solution-focused techniques to set small, achievable targets. Motivational interviewing supports people needing a boost in readiness and confidence. Rene also integrates internal family systems ideas to help people understand different parts of themselves and how those parts affect relationships and choices.
Existential therapy helps when clients are facing big life questions or searching for meaning after loss or change. She has experience with a wide range of concerns, including compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image, and commitment or attachment issues. Rene tailors her methods to the person, combining practical steps with deeper reflection when it fits.
People who choose her work with a clinician who emphasizes collaboration and steady support while they try new ways of coping and relating.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Client-centered therapy emphasizes the person's own experience and values; sessions focus on listening, reflecting, and helping the person make choices that match what matters to them. This approach is useful for relationship concerns, self-esteem, and coping with change.Solution-focused therapy targets specific, achievable goals and practical steps. It helps when someone wants quick progress on issues like stress, sleep, motivation, or coping in day-to-day life. Motivational interviewing supports people who feel stuck or ambivalent about change by exploring readiness and building internal motivation.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That process can shift over time as goals evolve.
Online formats offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to touch base between sessions, track progress, or use brief coping tools throughout the day.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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