Renee Kerns, LCMHC

Renee Kerns is a licensed counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and low self-esteem. She uses a calm, straightforward style so clients can talk through what’s hardest right now. Renee makes space for practical problem solving and emotional support in sessions.

With 14 years of experience in North Carolina, Renee often supports clients navigating workplace problems, caregiver strain, and transitions into young adulthood. She also focuses on concerns many women name - self-love, communication, and healing from difficult experiences. Her work includes helping people manage ADHD-related challenges and compassion fatigue.

Renee draws on client-centered methods to follow each person’s pace and priorities. She adds motivational interviewing when people want help finding the energy to change. Solution-focused techniques are used to set small, doable goals and track progress.

Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Renee listens for strengths, then helps clients try new ways of coping and communicating. She emphasizes skills people can use day to day, not just ideas to think about.

People who choose Renee often want a practical partner who also validates their feelings. She aims to help clients build resilience, sort priorities, and move toward clearer choices. To begin, readers can use the site’s process to match and schedule a session based on therapist availability.

How Renee’s approaches work in online therapy

Client-centered therapy focuses on the client’s own goals and pace. The therapist listens closely and follows what matters most to the person, which helps when sorting emotions like grief or anxiety. Motivational interviewing is a collaborative way to find motivation for change. It helps people overcome hesitation and set personal goals for things like managing caregiver stress or improving communication.

Solution-focused therapy concentrates on small, practical steps. Sessions aim to identify what’s already working and build on it, so clients leave with clear next actions rather than only talking about problems. Together, these approaches support both emotional processing and concrete change.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Renee will discuss options with clients and choose methods that fit needs, goals, and preferences. This is a collaborative process where goals can change as progress is made.

Confirm the therapist's available session formats before booking because the biography does not list them. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, such as scheduling short check-ins on a lunch break or cutting out travel time. It can also allow people to keep momentum between in-person visits by keeping consistent weekly or biweekly meetings that work with daily routines.