Rene Jourdan

Rene Jourdan, LCPC, offers a practical, down-to-earth approach to therapy rooted in Mindfulness Therapy and evidence-based techniques. She focuses on helping adults who are coping with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, and self-esteem concerns. Her style is calm and focused on real steps people can use between sessions. Rene brings 11 years of clinical experience in community mental health and addiction services in Idaho. She spent over five years providing crisis support through the North Idaho Crisis Line. That work shaped her ability to respond calmly in high-stress situations and to help people move from crisis to steadier coping. Her current role includes managing a substance use disorder program and offering group and individual addiction treatment. She has supervised programs in family and peer support and adolescent and adult substance use services. She also leads therapeutic groups such as coping skills, mental health processing, and the Matrix Model of addiction. In sessions she combines Mindfulness Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment-Based strategies, and a client-centered stance. Conversations tend to focus on concrete goals, practical skills, and noticing what matters to the person in front of her. Rene aims to help people build routines and skills that fit daily life. She works with issues like grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, ADHD, parenting stress, chronic health challenges, and career transitions. To begin, clients select the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire.

How Mindful and Practical Approaches Work Online

Mindfulness Therapy helps people notice thoughts, feelings, and body sensations without being pushed around by them. In practice this looks like short awareness exercises, breathing practices, and learning to bring attention back to the present when stress or craving arise. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to someone and taking small, values-driven steps. It is often used for anxiety, depression, addiction, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships affect current patterns and helps people develop safer ways of relating to others and to themselves.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rene will collaborate with each person to figure out which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That process usually starts with talking about what matters most now and trying small tools to see what helps.

The therapist's biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, shorten travel time, and allow for check-ins that work around work or caregiving schedules. It can also make participating in therapeutic groups or continuing regular appointments more practical when life is hectic.