Renee LaVigne, LMSW

Renee LaVigne is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) in Michigan with 25 years of experience. She works with adults who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, relationship strain, or life changes. Her practice also addresses issues such as parenting stress, addiction concerns, ADHD, and codependency.

Renee uses practical talk and focused therapy to help people make decisions and regain a sense of direction. She leans on approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and mindfulness strategies to reduce distress and increase clarity. Sessions often focus on clearer communication, coping skills, and managing intense emotions like anger or panic.

She encourages establishing connection early through phone or video so rapport can form. After an initial session, clients may use messaging through the portal for brief check-ins between meetings. Renee aims to help people break patterns that keep them putting others first at their own expense and to develop stronger boundaries and self-respect.

Her long experience includes supporting people through divorce and separation, blended family issues, abandonment wounds, infidelity, and caregiver stress. She also works with concerns about body image, guilt, and shame, and with those managing bipolar disorder alongside other challenges.

Renee describes therapy as a cooperative process where goals are clarified and steps are plotted. She offers a direct, practical style that focuses on next steps people can use in daily life. To begin, clients complete a short questionnaire and schedule a first session.

Approach-focused online sessions with practical tools