CHILD & FAMILY THERAPIST • EDUCATIONAL ADVOCATE •
CLINICAL SUPERVISOR & EDUCATOR
Supporting Regulation.
Building Skills.
Improving Everyday Functioning.
I’m Renee Bracey, LMHC, a child and family therapist with 20 years of experience working with children, adolescents, and families.
I work with children, adolescents, and young adults to understand what is getting in the way, strengthen regulation, and build practical CBT and DBT-based skills for everyday life. When appropriate, I also work with parents and schools to help those skills carry over beyond the therapy room.
My approach looks beyond a diagnosis or behavior to understand what may be driving a child’s difficulty – anxiety, regulation, executive functioning, sensory needs, developmental skills, or environmental demands. That understanding guides what we do next.
In therapy, I draw from CBT, DBT-informed strategies, therapeutic play, and regulation-based interventions to build skills that improve everyday functioning.
This same focus on understanding needs and identifying practical supports informs my work as an educational advocate, clinical supervisor, and graduate counseling educator.
WHO I HELP
Support That Goes Beyond the Therapy Room
Children bring more than a diagnosis or behavior into therapy. Development, regulation, relationships, family dynamics, school demands, and environment all affect how a child functions. Understanding those pieces helps determine what support will actually help.
Therapy focused on regulation, emotional and behavioral needs, and practical skills for everyday functioning.
Support for parents who want to better understand what is driving their child’s behavior, respond to dysregulation more effectively, and build strategies that work for their family.
Clinical and educational advocacy for families navigating IEPs, 504 Plans, accommodations, evaluations, meetings, and school-related concerns.
Clinical supervision and consultation focused on strengthening clinical thinking, applying theory to real cases, and developing practical skills for working with children and families.
Understanding What's Underneath the Behavior
Behavior gives us information. When a child is struggling, I want to understand what is driving the difficulty – not simply how to make the behavior stop. Regulation, anxiety, executive functioning, sensory needs, developmental differences, trauma, relationships, and environmental demands can all affect how a child responds. Understanding what is getting in the way helps us determine what skills, supports, and changes may actually help.
My clinical work focuses particularly on children and adolescents experiencing:
- ADHD & Executive Functioning
- Autism & Neurodivergence
- Emotion Regualtion Difficulties
- Behavioral Challenges
- School-Related Mental Health Challenges
My Work
Therapist. Advocate. Educator.
My work extends across therapy, educational advocacy, clinical supervision, and counselor education. While each role is different, they are connected by a common focus: understanding what is getting in the way, identifying what support is needed, and helping children, families, and developing clinicians move forward with practical strategies.
I help children and adolescents better understand their emotions and behavior, strengthen regulation, and develop CBT and DBT-based skills they can use to manage challenges in everyday life.
I help families understand how their child’s mental health, regulation, executive functioning, and developmental needs affect their ability to access school, and advocate for supports that address those needs.
I help developing clinicians connect what they learn in the classroom to what actually happens in clinical practice, strengthening their ability to assess what they are seeing, think through what may be driving it, and determine what to do next.
Finding the Right Place to Begin
Sometimes you know something isn’t working long before you know exactly what kind of help you need. Whether the concern is happening at home, at school, in therapy, or across all three, we can start by figuring out what is getting in the way and what kind of support makes sense.
Learn more about therapy for children, adolescents, and young adults and how to get started.
Learn more about educational advocacy, IEP and 504 support, school meetings, and consultation.
Learn more about clinical supervision and consultation for developing counselors and clinicians.