About Renee
Renee Alfieri is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York with ten years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people move past addiction, depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and relationship and intimacy concerns. Her approach is practical and direct, and she aims to treat each person with respect and compassion.
Renee tailors conversations and treatment plans to each person's situation. Sessions focus on identifying patterns, building motivation, and developing steps that fit daily life.
How Renee works
She draws on client-centered listening to understand what matters most to the individual. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going. Mindfulness practices are introduced when helpful to reduce reactivity and improve moment-by-moment awareness.
Motivational interviewing supports people who want to find internal reasons to change. Renee works with a wide range of concerns, including grief, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, compassion fatigue, eating-related issues, career stress, and many relationship difficulties. She pays attention to how attachment, abandonment history, and blended family roles shape current struggles.
Her sessions aim to be collaborative and goal-focused. She helps people set realistic steps and checks progress along the way. If someone prefers a coaching tone, she blends practical problem solving with therapy to support behavior change and emotional growth.
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What Renee works with
The areas below are the ones Renee selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
How Renee’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and giving the person space to set the pace and priorities for change. Online sessions can preserve that listening-first stance while letting clients bring real-life situations into the conversation.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) emphasizes noticing thoughts and testing behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and habit patterns. In remote sessions, CBT tools such as thought records and behavior experiments can be reviewed together and adapted to a person’s daily routine.
Motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change and strengthens commitment to small steps. This approach pairs well with short-term online check-ins or focused work on a single goal.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Renee will collaborate with the client to choose which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress unfolds.
Practical benefits of online therapy include easier scheduling around work or caregiving, fewer travel needs, and the ability to bring current problems into sessions quickly. The profile does not specify which session formats are offered, so confirm available options before booking. Online work is presented as a flexible way to apply client-centered, CBT, or motivational techniques in everyday life.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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