- Hypnotherapy
- Guilt and shame
- Career concerns
About Renata
Renata Peterson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in California with 25 years of clinical experience. She works with people who are carrying stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, career struggles, depression, and life changes. Renata also focuses on issues such as communication problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, isolation, and social anxiety.
She uses straightforward conversation to help people name what they are feeling and think through next steps. Sessions are practical and aim to break big problems into manageable pieces. She emphasizes honest discussion and a calm pace rather than quick fixes.
Renata includes hypnotherapy in her work. She explains what the technique involves and uses it with people who want to address recurring negative thoughts, reduce stress, or change habits that hold them back. When hypnotherapy is not the best fit, she combines it with talking-based work.
Her approach values clarity about goals. She helps people identify what matters most, outline small experiments, and check what works. Progress is tracked in plain terms so people can see what changes between sessions.
Renata aims for steady, goal-focused work rather than dramatic overhauls. She recognizes that guilt and shame can be heavy and often tied to family, faith, or relationships. The work focuses on practical steps to reduce the hold those feelings have on daily life.
How hypnotherapy and conversation work online
Renata uses hypnotherapy alongside talking-based work. Hypnotherapy is a guided relaxation and focused-attention method that can help reduce repetitive negative thoughts, ease stress responses, and support habit change. It is often used with people who want a more experiential way to respond to longstanding patterns.Her conversational work is practical and goal-oriented. That includes naming specific problems, setting small experiments to try between sessions, and checking what changed. She approaches the selection of techniques as a collaborative process and will work with each person to find what fits their needs and preferences.
Confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not specified in the biography. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow for shorter check-ins when that is helpful, and reduce travel time. Licensed professionals can offer ways to adapt exercises for phone or video so the work still feels useful in day-to-day life.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
25+ years
Listed in
California
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, self-esteem, career difficulties, depression, and coping with life changes, plus related concerns like communication issues, forgiveness, and guilt and shame.
How would she approach feelings of guilt or shame?
She uses practical conversation and techniques such as hypnotherapy to help people name the feeling, examine its origins, and try small experiments to reduce its impact on daily life.
What is her background and experience?
She is a California Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 25 years of professional experience working in mental health.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds an LCSW credential in California and practices from that state.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she work with international clients?
She is not currently accepting international clients.
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin a first session?
Click the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session after the match.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.