About Renee
Renee Giegel connects with people who are ready to make a change but feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to begin. She speaks plainly and listens carefully so clients can say what’s on their mind without feeling judged. Renee is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Virginia with 27 years of experience helping people navigate hard moments.
She focuses on practical steps that help with addictions, sleep problems, low self-esteem, depression, and motivation.
Background and approach
She also addresses relationship strains, grief, intimacy-related worries, and parenting stress. Sessions often include straightforward strategies and skills people can try between meetings. Renee uses approaches that center the person’s experience and goals.
She draws from client-centered work to follow each person’s lead, attachment-based ideas to look at patterns formed in relationships, and cognitive behavioral methods to identify thoughts that get in the way. Mindfulness and existential ideas are woven in when they fit the client’s needs. In sessions she creates a calm space for honest talk and practical problem solving.
People leave with clearer steps, new ways to notice feelings, and plans to cope with triggers or tough days. Her style is direct but compassionate, with an emphasis on real-world change. Renee helps people facing life transitions, career questions, chronic health challenges, ADHD, and other complex concerns.
Her work also covers adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, body image, and communication problems. She aims to meet people where they are and help them move forward.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Renee commonly draws on client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Client-centered work focuses on listening and following the person’s lead, which helps people feel heard and understood even when speaking by video or text. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at unhelpful thoughts and builds practical skills to change behaviors, which translates well to short exercises and homework between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and daily routines to decide which methods fit best. This is a collaborative process where adjustments are made as needs change over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit short check-ins into a busy day or to get support without scheduling a longer session. These options help people maintain consistency and practice new skills between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English