About Renee
Renee Giegel is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with 27 years of experience. She focuses on practical problems like depression, sleep trouble, addictions, low self-esteem, and ADHD. Renee aims to make the first step easier for people who feel stuck or overwhelmed.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about hard things. Conversations emphasize clear goals and real-life changes rather than jargon. Sessions often focus on improving day-to-day routines, coping skills, and motivation.
Background and approach
Renee combines approaches from attachment work, client-centered listening, and cognitive behavioral techniques. That mix supports people who want to understand their patterns and try new ways of coping. Mindfulness and existential ideas are also used to help people find meaning and stay present.
Her style tends to be straightforward and empathetic. She helps clients set manageable steps and track progress over time. Practical tools for sleep, stress, and behavioral change are part of the work.
Renee has spent decades helping people navigate grief, relationship problems, parenting stress, career transitions, and trauma recovery. She supports those dealing with chronic illness, caregiver strain, body image, and other overlapping concerns. Her aim is to help people build skills that fit their daily lives.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how past connections shape current relationships. In online sessions this approach helps people notice patterns in closeness, trust, and communication and practice different responses in real life.Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and understanding. The therapist follows the client's pace, reflecting feelings and helping people feel heard while they identify practical next steps for change.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replaces them with safer, more useful habits. It is often used for sleep problems, anxiety, depression, and managing impulses by teaching concrete strategies and small, testable changes.
Choosing the right approach happens together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. That collaborative process helps pick methods that fit the client's needs and daily life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and exercises that need visual cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is low. Live chat and messaging make brief check-ins and step-by-step coaching easier to fit into a busy day. These formats let people keep continuity of care across work, travel, or home responsibilities.
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What this therapist 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
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