Meet Renée
Renée H. Reopell, LCSW, SIFI
Unceded Munsee Lenape, Mohhican, and Schgghticoke land (Nyack, NY)
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Renée Reopell is a queer/ genderqueer, Boricua descendent (Puerto Rican/ Taino), born and raised in mainland US in Washington D.C. They hold a master’s degree in social work from NYU, with a focus in sexuality and gender, and have been privileged to support LGBTQ+ adults and youth for over a decade through trauma-informed and harm-reduction care practices, including formal training in trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy and internal family systems therapy. Renée is currently the director of the Resilience Program supporting transgender and nonbinary youth and their families in Connecticut, and has a private practice based in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. They are also a certified Horticultural Therapist through the NY Botanical Gardens, and bring the lessons of nature into their psychotherapeutic work. In their free time, they enjoy foraging mushrooms, roller skating, and making ceramics.