Renee Shacochis, MD, LCSW-C

Renee Shacochis, MD, LCSW-C, is a Maryland-based mental health professional with a decade of clinical experience working with adults, families, and children. She earned a Masters of Social Work with a concentration in Clinical Mental Health from the University of Maryland-Baltimore in 2011 and has spent the last 10 years providing individual, family, and group therapy to people from a variety of backgrounds.

Her practice has focused on concerns such as depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, adjustment difficulties, parenting challenges, relationship struggles, and communication issues. Renee approaches care from a client-centered, strengths-based perspective and places a high value on building a strong therapeutic alliance as a foundation for meaningful progress. She tailors goals and interventions to each person’s needs and may draw on a range of clinical approaches, including Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy.

Renee emphasizes increased self-awareness and insight as pathways for growth through difficult life experiences, and she aims to move at a pace that feels productive and comfortable for each individual. Her areas of specialty include stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, parenting, self-esteem, depression, family dynamics, grief, anger, career issues, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and ADHD. LCSW-C denotes Licensed Clinical Social Worker - Clinical, and MD refers to a medical degree; both are credentials she holds.

Renee is not accepting new clients at this time.