Renette Herrera , LMFT

Renette Herrera is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 13 years of experience. She brings a calm, interactive style to sessions and focuses on listening first. Her approach aims to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, depression, and relationship struggles.

Renette uses straightforward methods like cognitive behavioral tools and mindfulness to help clients spot and change unhelpful thoughts and routines. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take small steps toward goals. Sessions are warm and collaborative, with practical skills to try between meetings.

Many people come for help with parenting stress, intimacy concerns, grief, or coping with life changes. She also supports those navigating trauma, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and substance use issues. Renette pays attention to attachment and abandonment themes and common family-of-origin patterns that affect current relationships.

Her style is interactive and compassionate. She aims to meet people where they are and build confidence over time. Conversations are direct but respectful, focusing on concrete strategies and steady progress.

Renette offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Getting started is a short matching questionnaire and scheduling through the Start Therapy flow.

How Renette Uses Practical Approaches Online

Renette often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice what matters most, accept difficult feelings, and take action toward valued goals. ACT can be useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and life transitions where values-driven choices help guide change.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns, and to build concrete skills for managing mood and behavior. CBT tends to be goal-oriented and works well for worry, panic, low mood, and recurrent negative thinking.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Renette will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest methods to try. She treats the plan as a collaboration and adjusts tools based on what is helpful over time.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief skill coaching, and maintaining momentum between longer sessions. These options aim to fit therapy into daily life and make it easier to practice new skills consistently.