Renee Rodgers, LMSW, LSCSW, LCSW is a clinical social worker, psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapist.

She is a Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker in Kansas and Illinois. Renee earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas in Communication Studies, with an emphasis in intercultural communication, focusing on the similarities and differences that exist in verbal and nonverbal communication among cultures. She later obtained her Master of Social Work from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas in clinical social work for individuals, couples and families. She is a recent doctoral student at the Smith College School for Social Work in Northampton, Massachusetts where her training integrates clinical practice, theory, and research as well as racial and social justice.

Renee began her postgraduate career in 2000 at the Lawrence, Kansas Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center where she worked with severely and chronically mentally ill clients in intensive day treatment, case management and outpatient psychotherapy services. She received her Kansas clinical licensure in 2003 and returned to Topeka to become a member of Heritage Mental Health Clinic, a multidisciplinary psychoanalytic outpatient group founded by former staff of the Menninger Clinic. There her practice involved individual, couple, family and group psychotherapies. In 2006, Renee opened her own private practice in Topeka specializing in the treatment of men and women suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder and eating disorders. Her work with patients involved caring for people with a spectrum of mental health conditions. Her skills working with people with histories of childhood and adult emotional, physical and sexual trauma were further honed when she joined the United States Department of Defense in 2012, serving in the Fort Polk Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital Behavioral Health Department in Louisiana. Renee worked for ten years as a multidisciplinary team member providing emergency and brief mental health services for active duty service members and their families.

In addition to her clinical practice, involvement in clinical training and continuing education is a part of her professional identity. At Heritage Mental Health Clinic she served as the Assistant Director of Education teaching training seminars for student interns as well as coordinating continuing education programs for multidisciplinary mental health clinicians at the Clinic and in the community. Later, she became a continuing education committee member for the Kansas Medical Education Foundation in Topeka, focusing on planning and facilitating clinical education for the region.

In September of 2023, Renee reopened her private practice in Lawrence, Kansas.  In 2024 she expanded her private practice to Chicago, Illinois where she currently lives and maintains an affiliation with the psychoanalytic group practice Depth Counseling, P.C.