About Genna
Genna Lo Presti is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 22 years of experience helping people manage anxiety and related concerns. She blends practical talk with warmth and a straightforward style. Her work focuses on what gets in the way of feeling connected and capable.
Genna aims to help people notice patterns and make small, usable changes. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people make space for hard feelings while moving toward valued goals. Attachment-based thinking guides work on relationships and how early patterns show up now. Genna has worked in acute psychiatric and behavioral health settings throughout her career.
That background gives her experience with complex situations such as trauma, addictions, bipolar mood challenges, and grief. She also supports people facing issues like eating concerns, ADHD, intimacy struggles, and caregiver stress. Sessions are straightforward and conversational.
Genna listens closely and offers observations, practical strategies, and moments of humor when appropriate. She encourages realistic steps rather than perfection. Clients can expect a collaborative focus on coping with life changes, managing stress and anxiety, and improving communication and self-esteem.
Genna describes her approach as respectful, humane, and steady as clients work toward clearer priorities and more reliable coping.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting swept away by them, then choosing actions that match personal values. It can help when anxiety or avoidance stops daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches straightforward skills to change unhelpful patterns and reduce symptoms. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationship patterns shape current connections and emotional reactions, useful for intimacy and communication struggles.Finding the right approach often happens together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try out techniques, and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful. That collaborative process helps shape a therapy style that fits a person's needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat or messaging offers shorter check-ins or the ability to work through a thought pattern between calls. These options offer flexibility so therapy can fit into varied schedules and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- 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
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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