Renee Wells, LPC
Compassionate counselor focused on mind and body healing
About Renee
Renee Wells is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and depression. She focuses on clear, practical work so clients can feel calmer and more in control. Her approach is steady and compassionate, aimed at reducing symptoms that get in the way of daily life.
Renee brings 20 years of experience in mental health to each session. She uses talk-based methods alongside body-aware techniques to address how stress and trauma live in the body.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to match each person’s needs and comfort level. Common concerns she addresses include addiction, relationship and intimacy struggles, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, and challenges with focus or attention. She also supports people facing grief, career transitions, chronic illness, and compassion fatigue.
Renee works with issues tied to attachment, abandonment, blended-family dynamics, and caregiving stress. Her approach draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-focused work, client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral tools, and somatic practices. In session she combines practical strategies with attention to emotions and bodily responses so clients can use new skills in daily life.
Renee practices in Michigan and conducts sessions in English. She offers a range of online formats such as video, phone, live chat, and text messaging to make therapy fit different schedules. The initial steps are simple: complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session that suits your timing.
How somatic and evidence-based approaches work online
Renee blends somatic-informed work with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy to help people feel better in mind and body. Somatic-informed practices focus on noticing bodily sensations and using simple movement or breathing to reduce stress; this can help with trauma symptoms, anxiety, and chronic tension. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) teaches how to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck and to take actions that match personal values, which supports coping with depression, anxiety, and life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relational patterns and helps people understand how early relationship experiences affect current connections and trust.Choosing the right approach is part of the process and happens together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try methods that feel comfortable, and adjust the plan over time. This collaborative process helps identify what works best for the individual's needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexible ways to connect. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, to continue work across locations within Michigan, and to switch formats when needed. The emphasis is on practical tools and steady progress that can be used outside the session.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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