About Renee
Renee LaRock-Gary is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York with two decades of clinical experience. She brings steady, practical care to people coping with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and ADHD. Renee aims to help clients find workable tools and make steady progress at a pace that fits their life.
Renee’s path includes long experience in crisis work and advocacy, which shaped how she listens and responds.
Background and approach
She draws on a range of therapy approaches to match what each person needs. Sessions are collaborative and focused on concrete skills that can ease day-to-day struggles. In the room she favors clear, straightforward conversation over clinical jargon.
She helps people identify patterns, try new coping skills, and test what changes actually help. Renee also pays attention to attachment concerns and relationship patterns that affect mood and anxiety. Her work covers a broad set of issues beyond core anxiety and mood concerns.
This includes help with abandonment fears, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, dissociation, commitment and control issues, and challenges around sex and kink culture. She supports people working through grief, divorce, cancer, and aging-related stress. Renee uses approaches such as Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Mindfulness Therapy.
She treats each person as an individual and adjusts methods to fit real-life needs and goals.
How her therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationship patterns shape feelings and reactions. Online work can help people notice attachment patterns and practice new ways of relating in conversations with the therapist. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress because it gives clear tools to try between sessions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they adjust methods and try different strategies until there is a fit that feels useful and realistic for everyday life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and a more conversational format, phone sessions can work when internet bandwidth is limited, chat allows brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing, shorter communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or medical needs while keeping a steady course toward identified goals.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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