Renee LaRock-Gary, LMHC
Somatic-informed counselor focused on practical change
About Renee
Renee LaRock-Gary is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York with 20 years of clinical experience. She draws on a long career supporting people through anxiety, stress, trauma, grief, depression, and ADHD. Her work centers on practical steps that make daily life feel more manageable.
Renee uses movement, body awareness, and talk together to help people notice how stress shows up in the body. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape reactions and habits.
Background and approach
Sessions are guided by the person in front of her, so conversation and techniques match each person’s pace. Her background includes many years in crisis settings, hospitals, and advocacy roles where she worked with people after sexual assault and domestic violence. That experience informs a steady, grounded approach that focuses on safety and clear next steps.
Renee emphasizes skills people can use between sessions. She helps people facing a wide range of issues such as abandonment, body image, chronic pain and illness, caregiving stress, dissociation, and relationship concerns like commitment and control problems. Renee also offers support around aging, cancer, and the impacts of separation or divorce.
Renee aims to find what works quickly while respecting individual differences. She treats therapy as a collaborative process and adjusts methods based on what each person needs. Her style blends practical tools with attention to the body and relationships to help people move toward a more fulfilling life.
How somatic and relational approaches work online
Renee blends somatic work with attachment-based and client-centered methods to help people feel better in daily life. Somatic Therapy focuses on bodily sensations and gentle movement to reduce tension and calm the nervous system; it can help with trauma, anxiety, and chronic stress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationship patterns shape reactions and closeness; it can help with fear of abandonment, trust, and intimacy. Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes the person’s experience and choices, giving space for concerns to be heard and understood without judgment.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Renee collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort level. She adjusts pace and technique over time so the plan reflects what actually helps the individual make change.
Online therapy offers flexibility and access to sessions from home or elsewhere. Video calls let therapists and clients use visual and movement-based tools, while phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging provide simpler ways to stay connected between meetings. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care, fit therapy into busy schedules, and try different formats to see what supports progress best.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English