Works with
- Anger
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Self esteem
- Depression
How Renee works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Virginia
- Years in practice
- 27
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Renee
Renee Giegel is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with 27 years of experience. She helps people who are facing strong emotions and life challenges, including anger, addiction, grief, sleep problems, low self-esteem, and mood concerns. Renee aims to make the first step easier by offering steady support and a nonjudgmental space.
She focuses on making sessions simple and practical. Conversations are direct and use everyday language so people can apply what they learn between meetings.
Background and approach
Renee listens for patterns in thinking and behavior, then works with each person to try different ways of responding to stress and urges. Her approach blends attention to relationships and present thinking. She draws on attachment ideas to look at how early relationships may shape current reactions.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to spot unhelpful thoughts and try alternative responses. Mindfulness helps people learn to notice emotions without getting swept up in them. Renee often supports people coping with trauma, addictions, career shifts, parenting stress, and the aftermath of loss.
She also coaches those dealing with chronic illness, caregiver strain, body image, and communication problems. Sessions aim to build clearer choices and more effective coping skills. People find sessions practical and collaborative.
Renee helps set goals, tries tools in session, and adapts strategies to fit each person’s life. Her style is patient, straightforward, and focused on helping clients make steady, manageable changes.
What Renee works with
Everything Renee lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Renee's practice.
- 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
Approaches Renee lists
- 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
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that guide remote sessions
Renee uses Attachment-Based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current reactions and connections. This approach can help people understand why they respond strongly in close relationships and learn different ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new responses; it is practical and often used for mood problems, anxiety, sleep issues, and managing urges. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and grounding practices to reduce reactivity and make emotions easier to tolerate.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Renee treats the first sessions as an opportunity to identify goals and try methods to see what fits. She collaborates with each person to blend techniques based on their needs, preferences, and progress over time.
Online therapy can make it easier to fit help into a busy life. Video calls let people use visual cues and fuller conversation, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options provide flexibility so people can practice skills between meetings and maintain continuity of care.
Questions people ask about Renee
What kinds of concerns does Renee address?
She works with a broad range of issues including addictions, anger, trauma, sleep problems, depression, self-esteem, intimacy concerns, grief, parenting strain, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and related life changes.
What is her general therapy style?
Renee uses a direct, practical approach that focuses on everyday skills. Sessions emphasize clear steps, pattern-spotting, and tools people can use between meetings.
How long has she practiced and what is her background?
She has 27 years of professional experience helping people with addictions, trauma, mood and relationship challenges and a range of other concerns.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in Virginia and provides services while based in that state.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available online?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to connect for therapy.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.