About Genna
Genna Lo Presti uses a blend of practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people navigate emotional pain and relationship strain. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, with 22 years of experience and practices from Florida. Genna writes plainly and listens closely to what matters most in someone’s life.
Genna focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. She also addresses intimacy-related issues, addictions, eating concerns, and challenges tied to identity and LGBT concerns.
How Genna works
Parenting stress, caregiver strain, and changes that come with aging are among the life events she supports people through. Her work draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotion-focused ideas, attachment-based thinking, and client-centered care. In sessions she helps clients notice unhelpful patterns, name painful feelings, and choose steps that match their values.
The approach balances insight with doable strategies. Genna’s background includes roles in acute psychiatric and behavioral health settings. She began clinical training after earning a bachelor’s degree in 2006 and a master’s degree in 2010, and she obtained her Florida LCSW in 2014.
That experience shaped her practical way of working with complex problems. She aims to create a warm, straightforward space where people can talk without judgment. Genna often uses humor to ease tension and encourages realistic, manageable change.
Her goal is to help clients feel less consumed and more able to move forward.
Genna lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Genna works with
The areas below are the ones Genna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches applied to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that reflect what they care about. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes where someone feels stuck.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing thought and behavior patterns that maintain distress. It teaches practical skills for managing symptoms like panic, low mood, and unhelpful coping such as avoidance.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current ways of relating and feeling safe with others. It can help people understand intimacy struggles, attachment issues, and patterns in close relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Genna will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She mixes approaches as needed and checks in regularly to adjust the plan together.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper emotional work, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging works well for brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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