Renee LaRock-Gary , LMHC

Renee LaRock-Gary is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in New York. She brings 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and ADHD. Renee focuses on giving practical tools and a clear plan so people can start feeling better early in therapy.

Her work emphasizes a warm, collaborative approach. Sessions are person-centered and geared toward what each individual needs. Renee helps clients identify small changes that bring relief and builds on those wins over time.

She uses a mix of methods including attachment-based work, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior tools, and mindfulness. These approaches help with emotional regulation, unhelpful thinking, and repairing patterns that cause pain in relationships. Renee explains techniques in plain language and practices them together with clients during sessions.

Renee also supports people dealing with specific life challenges such as abandonment, caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image, and issues around commitment and control. She has experience with trauma, dissociation, and the effects of divorce and separation. The focus is on practical coping skills and rebuilding a meaningful life.

Sessions are tailored to the person and paced to their comfort. Renee aims to make each visit useful and actionable so clients can apply what they learn between sessions. She works in English and with people across different locations, helping them find what fits their life and goals.

How her approaches translate to online care

Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current feelings and reactions. In therapy this looks like noticing recurring relationship fears and practicing new ways of connecting and responding that feel safer and more reliable.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test them with real-life experiments. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related thinking patterns by breaking problems into steps and practicing new skills.

Renee treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and try methods together. If something doesn’t fit, she adjusts the plan so therapy stays useful and manageable.

Online formats offer practical advantages for many clients. Video calls allow face-to-face work when learning new skills matters. Phone sessions can be a simple check-in or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for brief support, tracking progress, or getting coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule regular sessions and apply what is learned in everyday life.