About Giovanna
Giovanna Agostinelli welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship pain, or life transitions. She aims to create a calm, listening space where clients can talk through what matters most and find clearer ways to cope. Giovanna holds a Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential in Florida and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor credential in Utah.
She brings eight years of clinical experience to her work. Giovanna uses straightforward methods to help people manage symptoms and make practical changes.
How Giovanna works
She often draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and build more effective habits. She also incorporates acceptance and commitment ideas that focus on values and small, doable steps. Attachment-based work appears when relationship patterns are part of the concern.
That approach looks at how early bonds affect current connections and helps people experiment with new ways of relating. Dialectical behavior strategies are used when stronger emotion regulation skills are helpful, including teaching concrete tools for distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness. Sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different rhythms of life.
Giovanna emphasizes collaboration - she partners with clients to set goals and try approaches that suit their needs and schedules. Her practice pays attention to cultural background and individual differences when shaping treatment. People choose Giovanna for practical steps, steady support, and flexible online formats.
She aims to make therapy understandable and manageable so people can return to daily life with better coping skills and clearer direction.
Giovanna lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
What Giovanna works with
The areas below are the ones Giovanna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How specific approaches work in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages noticing thoughts without getting stuck and choosing small actions that match personal values; it can help with anxiety, depression, and getting unstuck during life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression and improve daily functioning. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns and helps people try new ways of relating when old responses no longer serve them.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to goals and concerns, explain different methods, and try options together to see what fits. Adjustments can be made along the way based on what helps most in real life.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for people with busy schedules. Video calls let sessions feel similar to an in-person visit, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone wants not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, brief skill practice, or people who prefer writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or daily routines and to maintain momentum between sessions.
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