Renee Giegel , LPC

Renee Giegel is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia with 27 years of clinical experience. She supports people who are facing hard changes and painful patterns, including struggles with addiction, trauma, sleep problems, low self-esteem, depression, and relationship stress. Renee focuses on helping clients take small, steady steps toward clearer goals and more manageable days.

She creates an open, nonjudgmental space where people can name worries and try out new ways of coping. Sessions are grounded in everyday language and practical strategies, not jargon. Clients can expect calm listening and direct feedback aimed at making life easier to handle.

Renee draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape emotions and behavior. She also uses client-centered methods to follow each person’s pace and priorities. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to spot unhelpful thoughts and replace them with actions that improve mood and functioning.

Over her career she has worked with concerns that often overlap, such as grief, parenting stress, career strain, eating issues, and ADHD. Renee also supports people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, aging-related issues, chronic illness, and caregiver strain.

She offers practical tools for coping with anger, motivation slumps, and life transitions. The goal is to help people build skills they can use outside of sessions and to notice incremental progress over time.

How her approaches work online

Renee uses attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships and past connections shape current feelings and behavior. This approach helps when trust, closeness, or repeated patterns in relationships cause distress. Client-centered therapy is another core part of her work and centers the client's priorities; the therapist follows the person’s pace and helps them choose what to address next. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioral changes to improve mood and function.

Finding the right combination of approaches is part of the process. Renee will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and tailor the plan together. That collaborative process helps guide whether to emphasize attachment work, client-centered listening, CBT skills, or a mix of methods over time.

Online work is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video sessions suit deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can fit quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit sessions into work, caregiving, and busy schedules while keeping therapy practical and consistent.