About Rene
Rene Morago-Barton is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She draws on several practical therapies to help people notice what matters to them and take small, realistic steps forward. Rene works with people facing relationship strains, parenting challenges, substance concerns, grief, and career or life changes.
She trained in psychology and counseling and has eight years of experience in a variety of settings.
How Rene works
That background includes agency work, inpatient care, and independent practice. Those experiences shaped a flexible approach that fits different life situations and levels of need. In sessions she uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and DBT tools to build emotional regulation and distress-tolerance skills.
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take committed action. Her style is client-centered, which means she aims to follow each person's pace and priorities. Rene pays attention to family transitions, blended household issues, and caregiver stress.
Additional focuses include attachment concerns, codependency, substance use and relapse, forgiveness work, and coping after disasters or violence. She also supports people managing ADHD symptoms and mood disorders. People who choose her can expect straightforward conversation, practical skill building, and collaborative planning.
To begin, prospective clients complete a short questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on availability.
Rene lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Rene works with
The areas below are the ones Rene selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How approach and online work come together
Rene integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based ideas, and Client-Centered methods into her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings while still taking steps toward what matters. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and how early bonds shape current trust and closeness. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on following the person's pace and priorities, using empathy and listening to guide each session.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, needs, and preferences and then try methods that fit. That collaborative process means adjustments are made if something does not feel helpful.
Specific online session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. In general, remote sessions can make it easier to fit counseling into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Licensed professionals can use these sessions to teach skills such as emotion regulation, behavior experiments, values-based planning, and grounding strategies in ways that work for everyday life.
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