About Renee
Renee Marter is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing addictions, trauma, and intense mood shifts find steadier ground. She focuses on practical steps parents and individuals can use to manage anger, reduce distress, and rebuild daily routines. Her tone is supportive and straightforward for people who are worried and need clear help.
Renee brings ten years of clinical experience in New Jersey to each session. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address problems like attachment difficulties, caregiver stress, and co-occurring health and mental health concerns.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on learning skills, practicing different ways of responding, and setting realistic short-term goals. Clients can expect a calm, non-judgmental environment where feelings and memories are taken seriously. Conversation may include examining patterns that keep problems going and trying small behavior changes between meetings.
Renee pays attention to how mood disorders, trauma history, and addiction can affect relationships and daily life. Her work often includes support around parenting challenges, bereavement connected to adoption and foster care issues, and managing chronic illness or pain alongside emotional strain. She also addresses concerns related to body image, commitment and codependency, and the stresses that come with aging or caregiving.
Renee offers sessions in English and works with people who prefer video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. She aims to help clients build practical coping tools and clearer plans so they can move forward with more confidence.
Online approaches that focus on skills and healing
Renee uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that teach concrete coping skills and address past trauma. One common approach she applies helps people learn practical emotion-regulation and behavior strategies to manage anger, mood swings, and addictive urges. These are step-by-step tools clients can practice between sessions to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.She also works with trauma-focused methods that help people safely revisit and make sense of painful memories while building new ways to respond. This kind of work often reduces the power of past events over present reactions and supports more stable emotional responses over time.
Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. Renee will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest techniques that match those priorities. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan so the work stays useful and practical.
Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging makes it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options aim to make therapy flexible and more accessible for people balancing work, caregiving, or health concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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