About Renee
Renee LaRock-Gary is a licensed mental health counselor in New York with 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and ADHD. Her approach is practical and straightforward.
She aims to help people start feeling better from early sessions onward. Renee draws on several therapy styles to meet each person's needs. She uses attachment-based work to look at how relationships shape feelings and reactions.
Background and approach
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Mindfulness and dialectical skills are offered to help manage strong emotions and build steady coping habits. Her way of working is collaborative.
She helps clients find strategies that fit their life and preferences. Renee expects most people will benefit from commonly useful approaches while also tailoring a few techniques to their unique situation. Renee’s background includes a long history of direct clinical work in crisis settings and support roles for people who have experienced trauma.
That experience informs how she structures sessions and prioritizes safety and stabilization early on. People who reach out can expect clear, practical direction and room to move at their own pace. Renee emphasizes small, concrete steps alongside deeper reflection so clients can make changes between sessions and toward better everyday functioning.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Renee uses attachment-based work to look at how past and current relationships affect feelings and behavior. That approach helps people understand patterns that contribute to stress, anxiety, or relationship strain. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, gives clear steps to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors, which can reduce symptoms like worry or low mood.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Renee discusses goals and preferences in early sessions and then tailors techniques together. She adjusts tools based on what is working and what feels manageable, so the plan evolves with the client's needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone work can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or fitting therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to work on stress, anxiety, trauma-related coping, and other concerns from different locations and schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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