Renee Capanna, LCSW, LISW

Renee Capanna is a licensed social worker in Ohio with 25 years of experience. She uses a person-focused approach that centers on how thoughts and everyday habits affect feelings and behavior. Renee aims to help people build confidence and find practical ways to face stress, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions.

Renee listens first and then helps people notice patterns that keep them stuck. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thoughts and on client-centered work to follow each person’s pace. She also brings perspectives from existential and Jungian approaches to help people make meaning of hard experiences.

Many clients come for support with depression, self-esteem, and motivation. Others seek help for eating and food-related issues, grief, relationship strain, or caregiving stress. Renee also addresses concerns like abandonment, attachment struggles, codependency, and communication problems.

Sessions focus on practical skills and small habit changes that fit into everyday life. Renee encourages curiosity about patterns rather than blame, and she helps people try new ways of coping between meetings. The work is collaborative, with the person’s goals guiding each step.

She emphasizes steady progress over quick fixes. Over time she helps people increase confidence, manage emotions, and make clearer choices about work, parenting, or relationships. Renee supports clients who want a grounded, thoughtful approach to change.

Approaches that connect thoughts, habits, and meaning

Renee often draws on client-centered work, which centers the conversation on the person’s experience and priorities. This approach helps people feel heard while they decide what changes matter most in daily life.

She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify patterns of thinking that contribute to anxiety, low mood, or unhelpful habits. CBT-style work typically involves noticing thoughts, testing them, and practicing small behavior changes to shift how someone feels.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Renee will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and together they will decide which methods to try. That collaborative planning helps match strategies to real-life needs rather than applying a single method to every person.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm available session formats before booking because the biography does not list them. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and avoid travel time. It also supports steady practice of new habits between meetings, which is important when focusing on thoughts and everyday routines.