About Giancarlo
Giancarlo Pia is a Licensed Master Social Worker and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 19 years of clinical experience. He practices in Michigan and brings a calm, practical approach to sessions. He focuses on anxiety, stress, depression, grief, addiction concerns, and relationship and family challenges.
He listens first and helps people name what matters to them. Sessions are collaborative and goal-focused. He believes clients already have strengths they can use to make changes.
Background and approach
Giancarlo uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help manage anxious thoughts and mood shifts. He also draws on mindfulness and motivational interviewing to support motivation and present-moment coping. These methods are explained in plain language and tailored to each person's life.
People come to him for help with parenting strain, blended family issues, fatherhood questions, and communication problems. He also supports those dealing with trauma and abuse, self-esteem struggles, body image, and issues related to sexual orientation or gender identity. In sessions he focuses on practical steps - small experiments, clearer boundaries, better day-to-day routines, and skills for handling intense feelings.
He helps clients translate what they learn in therapy into real life. The aim is to reduce avoidant behaviors and increase choices that match personal values.
Approach and options for online therapy
Giancarlo commonly uses acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Acceptance and commitment therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression.He also brings client-centered and motivational interviewing elements into virtual work. That means therapy is collaborative - the therapist helps clients clarify goals and chooses tools with them. Finding the right approach is part of the process and adjustments are made based on the client's needs, goals, and preferences.
Online appointments are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets you work face to face when you can, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, and chat or text work well for brief check-ins or when typing feels most comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep regular contact between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, California
- Languages
- English
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