About Genna
Genna Lo Presti is a licensed clinical social worker who blends practical therapy with a warm, down-to-earth style. She draws on 22 years of experience to help people who are feeling stuck, anxious, or overwhelmed. Her approach is straightforward and human.
She values honesty, humor, and clear steps people can try between sessions. She uses evidence-informed approaches like cognitive behavioral methods and acceptance strategies to help people shift unhelpful thoughts and actions.
Background and approach
Attachment-focused work is part of how she helps people understand patterns in close relationships. Sessions emphasize real-life changes rather than abstract labels. Genna has worked in acute psychiatric and behavioral health settings across her career.
That background gives her experience with complex presentations such as trauma, mood concerns, addictions, and co-occurring issues. She is able to break problems into manageable parts so progress feels possible. Many people come for help with anxiety, depression, relationship pain, grief, parenting stress, or identity concerns.
She also supports people struggling with anger, self-esteem, eating concerns, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Genna pays attention to how daily pressures and attachment histories shape present behavior. Her style is direct but compassionate.
She brings practical tools, gentle challenge, and occasional humor to sessions. The work is collaborative - she helps people set goals, try new actions, and notice what changes over time.
How approach and access come together online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood, avoidance, and people who want clearer direction in daily life. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds shape current responses; it helps people understand recurring relationship struggles and build more supported ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns by teaching practical skills to test and change those patterns, which is helpful for anxiety, depression, and coping with stress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. That means checking in, adjusting strategies, and combining techniques when that makes sense for what the person wants to achieve.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work through material face-to-face when visual connection helps. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, quick skill reminders, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity of care when in-person visits are not convenient.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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