About Gianetta
Dr. Gianetta "Gina" Feistel is a licensed social worker in Michigan with 25 years of experience. She works with people facing relationship strain, career shifts, self-esteem struggles, and major life changes.
Gina uses practical, down-to-earth methods to help people move forward and feel more in control. Gina draws on a mix of approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and client-centered listening. She helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, connect actions to values, and build day-to-day habits that improve coping.
How Gianetta works
Sessions focus on clear, usable steps rather than abstract theory. Her background includes long-term work supporting adjustment to illness, caregiving stress, and workplace difficulties. Gina has experience with chronic pain, disability, and issues that come up during midlife transitions.
That experience informs a straightforward style that values practical solutions. People often bring concerns such as abandonment, body image, guilt and shame, or isolation. Gina also supports those dealing with money and financial stress, communication problems, control issues, and recovery from trauma.
She aims to make space for the feelings behind those concerns and to map out next steps. Gina holds a Master of Social Work and uses the LMSW credential. Her sessions emphasize collaboration, respect, and steady progress.
She works to help each person leave with something they can try between sessions.
Gianetta lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Gianetta works with
The areas below are the ones Gianetta selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters most and take small actions toward those values while accepting difficult feelings. It is useful for anxiety about choices, life transitions, and issues like low self-esteem. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to change how situations feel. CBT is often chosen for mood, anxiety, and workplace stress because it breaks problems into concrete steps.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has worked or not in the past. She uses a collaborative process to try methods, adjust as needed, and pick what feels most helpful for the client's situation.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video can mirror an in-person session for deeper conversation, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging suit quick check-ins or workday breaks. These options let people access care from wherever they are in Michigan and make it easier to keep consistent visits around busy lives.
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