Rene Jourdan

Rene Jourdan, LCPC, offers a straightforward, person-focused way of working. She centers conversations on what a person is facing now and what they want to change. Sessions aim to reduce overwhelming feelings like anger, anxiety, or grief and help people take practical steps forward.

Rene uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws on client-centered and cognitive behavioral methods to unpack thoughts and behaviors. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas help people notice difficult feelings without getting swept away by them.

Her background includes more than a decade of clinical work and direct crisis service experience in North Idaho. That work included responding through a regional crisis line for over five years and supervising programs for family and peer support. She also managed substance use disorder programming and ran group and individual addiction treatment.

In practice she often blends brief, skills-based work with deeper exploration of patterns. That can look like learning tools to calm strong emotions, practicing new communication habits, or examining past attachment wounds that still influence relationships. She has led coping skills groups, mental health processing groups, and the Matrix Model of addiction.

Rene’s sessions are built around what each person needs next. She aims to be practical and steady while helping people find clearer thinking and better coping. To get started, clients choose a schedule and share their priorities so therapy can focus on real-life change.

How these approaches fit into online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice and accept difficult thoughts and emotions while moving toward what matters to them. It is useful for anxiety, anger, and life changes by teaching mindful noticing and values-based action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It offers practical skills to challenge unhelpful thinking and build different habits for mood, anxiety, and coping with stress.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that seem to fit. That process is collaborative and can shift as needs change during therapy.

The original biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm the available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or travel. It can also allow shorter check-ins, easier scheduling across time zones, and options when attending in person is difficult. Licensed professionals use these methods to deliver the same skill-building and emotional processing as in-person care, adapted to the online setting.