About Genna
Genna Lo Presti is a licensed clinical social worker with 22 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, mood concerns, trauma, and issues around intimacy and relationships. She brings a practical, down-to-earth style that focuses on what a person can do next. Genna uses everyday language and straightforward tools so change feels doable.
She draws on approaches like cognitive behavioral work, attachment-focused ideas, and client-centered listening to understand how past experiences shape current reactions.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and aimed at noticing patterns that keep people stuck. The emphasis is on small, steady shifts rather than instant fixes. Genna has worked across psychiatric and behavioral health settings since earning a Bachelor’s degree in 2006 and a Master’s degree in 2010.
She became licensed as a clinical social worker in Florida in 2014. Her background includes treating complex presentations such as addiction, grief, bipolar conditions, and co-occurring concerns. People who see her can expect a blend of pragmatic strategies and reflective conversation.
She uses humor and plain talk to ease tension and make hard topics easier to face. Genna helps people build clearer boundaries, better communication, and more satisfying connection with themselves and others. Her practice addresses a wide range of issues including trauma and abuse, depression, ADHD, eating and body image concerns, caregiver stress, and abandonment wounds.
The work centers on learning manageable skills, strengthening emotional awareness, and reclaiming a sense of worth that past hurts may have diminished.
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed actions toward them. It helps when worry or avoidance keeps someone from living the life they want. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand why they react strongly in close relationships and learn new ways to connect.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust over time if something is not helping.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper connection. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging make shorter check-ins and ongoing support possible between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to use methods that match a person's comfort and schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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