Launching a New Digital Home: Welcome to chrysalis.global
Allison Rae Nichols, Surrealist, Let’s Not Waste Any More Time
Renee D. Rodgers, MSW, LSCSW, LCSW is pleased to announce the launch of her new website, chrysalis.global a thoughtfully designed digital space that reflects both her clinical philosophy and her commitment to meaningful, attentive care.The new site offers a welcoming place for individuals, couples, and families to learn more about Renee’s work as a clinical social worker and psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, as well as her approach to supporting patients through complex emotional experiences, life transitions, and relationship challenges. Designed with clarity and ease of navigation in mind, the site emphasizes accessibility, reflection, and calm - qualities that mirror the therapeutic environment she strives to create in her practice.A special feature of the new site is the inclusion of original surreal paintings created by Renee’s maternal cousin, Allison Rae Nichols. These images were selected intentionally to provide a sense of warmth, familiarity, and personal connection throughout. The collaboration reflects a shared knowledge of the ways in which unconscious themes and inner conflicts are expressed; a shared aesthetic sensibility, and the belief that visual environments can shape how we experience spaces — digital or otherwise. Renee brings more than twenty-five years of clinical experience to her practice. She is licensed in both Kansas and Illinois as a Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker and provides psychotherapy for adolescents and adults, including individuals, couples, and families. Her clinical work is grounded in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic traditions, with particular attention to how early experiences, relational patterns, and unconscious processes shape emotional life and personal functioning.Her professional path has included extensive work in community mental health, private practice, and military behavioral health. Renee began her career at the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center in Lawrence, Kansas, working with individuals experiencing severe and chronic mental illness. She later joined Heritage Mental Health Clinic in Topeka, a multidisciplinary psychoanalytic outpatient group founded by former staff of the Menninger Clinic, where she provided individual, couple, family, and group psychotherapy. In 2006, she established her own private practice specializing in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder and eating disorders.From 2012 to 2023, Renee served as part of a multidisciplinary behavioral health team at the Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital at Fort Polk, Louisiana, where she provided emergency and brief mental health services to active duty service members and their families. This experience further deepened her clinical expertise in trauma-informed care, crisis stabilization, and complex emotional presentations.In addition to clinical work, Renee has long been engaged in professional education and training. She has taught seminars for clinical trainees and contributed to continuing education programs for multidisciplinary mental health professionals. She is a recent doctoral student at the Smith College School for Social Work in Northampton, Massachusetts, where her training integrated clinical practice, theory, research, and a sustained commitment to racial and social justice.Renee reopened her private practice in Lawrence, Kansas in 2023 and expanded services to Chicago, Illinois in 2024, where she maintains an affiliation with Depth Counseling, P.C. Her work addresses a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and loss, relationship difficulties, eating disorders, mood instability, stress and emotional overwhelm, and challenges related to life transitions and personal functioning.The launch of chrysalis.global marks an important step in making Renee’s work more visible and accessible to those seeking thoughtful, compassionate care. The site is designed not simply as an informational resource, but as an invitation — to reflect, to explore possibilities for change, and to consider the value of sustained therapeutic work.