Renee Giegel is a licensed professional counselor in Virginia with 27 years of experience.
01About Renee
Renee Giegel is a licensed professional counselor in Virginia with 27 years of experience. She helps people facing addictions, trauma, sleep problems, low self-esteem, depression, and a wide range of life stresses. Parents reading this will find straightforward, calm wording and a practical focus on next steps.
Renee aims to make starting therapy less intimidating and more manageable. In sessions she encourages honest conversation and listens without judgment. The goal is to create space to talk through feelings and patterns that keep a person stuck.
Background and approach
She draws on approaches that help people understand their attachments, notice unhelpful thoughts, and reconnect with daily meaning. Renee combines client-centered care with practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy. That means she pays attention to each person's goals while offering specific ways to change thoughts and behaviors that cause distress.
Mindfulness techniques are used to build present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity. Her background includes long-term clinical work supporting people through grief, relationship trouble, parenting strain, and career transitions. She also works with issues like ADHD, chronic illness, eating concerns, and compassion fatigue.
Renee brings steady experience and a focus on small, achievable changes. Therapy with her usually covers coping skills, problem solving, and improving communication. She encourages clients to set realistic steps and tracks progress together.
The tone is practical and compassionate, aimed at real-world improvements rather than abstract theory.
02Credentials
- LPC (Virginia)
- License 0701005357 · expires June 2026
- NPI
- 1528312873 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Renee lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- 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
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Methods Renee names
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
These are the methods Renee names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
How her approaches work online
Renee uses client-centered therapy to build a trusting relationship and understand what matters most to each person. That approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and supporting the client's own goals and choices. Cognitive behavioral therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors, which helps with issues like depression, anxiety, and sleep problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. This means adjusting focus over time and combining techniques as progress is tracked together.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video is useful for deeper conversation and reading facial cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Shorter check-ins can be done by live chat or messaging for quick support between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy routines.
05Questions people ask
What concerns does she address?
She works with a wide range of issues including addictions, trauma and abuse, sleep problems, low self-esteem, depression, and relationship and intimacy-related issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach is collaborative and client-centered, mixing listening and reflection with practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness.
What is her professional background?
She has 27 years of professional experience working in clinical settings to help people with grief, parenting challenges, career changes, and more.
What credentials does she hold and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC - licensed in Virginia and practices from that state.
Which languages and international options are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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