About Renee
Renee Wells is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people who are struggling with fears, anxiety, stress, and related issues. She focuses on practical steps people can take to feel safer and more able to cope. Her tone is calm and collaborative, and she aims to create space for honest conversation.
With two decades of experience in mental health, Renee draws on several approaches to match each person's needs.
Background and approach
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people build a life guided by values rather than by fear. She also draws on Attachment-Based and Client-Centered ways of working to strengthen emotional regulation and self-awareness. Renee often helps people whose fears come from past trauma, loss, or big life changes.
She supports people dealing with grief, depression, addiction, burnout, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, and sleep or eating problems. She also works with issues such as ADHD, body image, chronic illness, and caregiver strain. Sessions may include skill building, emotion regulation practice, and step-by-step plans for facing feared situations.
Renee aims to keep language clear and steps small so progress feels manageable. She approaches each person without judgment and collaborates on realistic goals. Renee practices in Michigan and conducts sessions in English.
Her background and methods are focused on helping people reduce the hold of fear and build coping skills for day-to-day life.
How her approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without being driven by them, and then take small actions that match their values. It is often useful for anxiety, avoidance, and adjusting after loss. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and exposure tasks, which can reduce fear and anxiety over time. Attachment-Based Therapy centers on improving emotional understanding and safety in relationships, helping people process wounds from past connections and build steadier coping skills.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Renee will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, preferences, and the problems they bring. That may mean using ACT for values work, CBT for specific fear reduction, or mixing approaches to match changing needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when camera use is undesirable. Live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins, skills practice, or brief coaching between longer sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or medical needs.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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