About Georgianne
Georgianne Nacionales is a licensed clinical social worker in Hawaii with eight years of post‑graduate clinical experience. She draws on her background in social work and special education to help people address relationship and family challenges, parenting concerns, stress, anxiety, and mood struggles. Georgianne aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can speak honestly about what matters to them.
She treats sessions as a conversation. Georgianne listens first, then helps clients identify practical steps they can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Her approach values the client’s own strengths and life story as the starting point for change. Georgianne uses a mix of evidence‑based methods and mindfulness practices to support everyday problems like sleep, eating, and anger, as well as longer‑standing issues such as trauma, grief, addiction, and ADHD. She also addresses concerns about intimacy and self‑esteem.
Sessions focus on what will make life easier and more meaningful for each person. Her background includes a Master of Social Work with a child and family concentration and a Master of Special Education with an applied behavior analysis focus. That combination informs her practical, skills‑based style and her attention to family dynamics and parenting needs.
People who meet with Georgianne can expect a collaborative relationship. She helps clients set clear goals, experiment with small changes, and build on what already works in their lives.
Therapeutic methods online and how they help
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what matters most and take small steps toward those values while letting difficult thoughts and feelings have less power. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, or stress. Client‑Centered Therapy gives space for the person to be heard and understood, and it builds motivation and confidence through an empathetic, nonjudgmental relationship.Figuring out the right approach is a shared process. Georgianne will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and then try methods that seem to fit. She adjusts strategies over time based on what helps the client make progress and feel more capable.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client connect face to face when needed, while phone sessions work well when video is not convenient or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text‑based messaging are useful for short check‑ins, homework support, or when someone prefers written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and maintain regular contact between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English