About Genevieve
Genevieve Sofranec uses practical, evidence-based approaches to help people cope with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and major life changes. She is a licensed social worker with LCSW and LISW credentials and brings six years of clinical experience in Ohio and Kentucky. Genevieve focuses on helping people build skills that fit everyday life and respond to what matters most to them.
Her work emphasizes clear, actionable steps rather than jargon. She combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral techniques, mindfulness, and a client-centered attitude to address concerns like depression, addictions, self-esteem, and anger.
How Genevieve works
Sessions often include skill practice, values clarification, and gentler emotion regulation tools drawn from Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Genevieve’s path into counseling began after a career change from business management in 2013. That shift shaped her belief that hard experiences can lead to growth.
She uses that perspective when helping people who feel stuck after loss, illness, or difficult transitions. Her additional focus covers relationship and intimacy-related concerns, parenting stress, caregiver burden, blended family dynamics, adoption and foster care issues, and body image. She also supports people dealing with chronic pain, cancer, career-related stress, and feelings of emptiness.
In sessions she aims to create a nonjudgmental environment and to help clients notice what works for them. Therapy is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs, with an emphasis on building lasting tools for coping and connection.
Genevieve lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Genevieve works with
The areas below are the ones Genevieve selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, LISW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
How therapy methods translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice their values and take small actions toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts. It is useful for anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills for handling intense feelings and relationship challenges.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust based on what helps. That collaborative process makes it easier to test techniques and adapt them to daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth sessions and skill demonstrations. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a shorter check-in. Chat and text messaging can support brief reflections, between-session check-ins, or stepped care while juggling a busy schedule. These options give flexibility to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or medical demands.
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