Genna Lo Presti, LCSW

Genna Lo Presti, LCSW, is licensed in Florida and has 22 years of clinical experience. She focuses on addictions, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, depression, anxiety, and related areas. Her approach blends acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-based thinking, client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and emotionally-focused methods to address what shows up in day-to-day life.

Genna describes how insecure attachments, unresolved trauma, and stressful environments can erode self-esteem. She looks at how people avoid intimacy and how that avoidance shows up as anger, withdrawal, or codependent behaviors. Sessions are conversational and direct; she sometimes uses humor and impersonations to ease tension and to make difficult topics easier to talk about.

Her background includes work in acute psychiatric and multiple behavioral health settings. She has used psychodynamic, existential, humanistic, CBT, strength-based, inner child, and trauma-focused approaches across her career. She earned a bachelor’s degree in 2006, a master’s degree in 2010, and achieved Clinical Social Worker licensure in 2014.

In practical terms she helps people notice repetitive patterns such as abandonment reactions, attachment issues, dissociation, and communication problems. She also addresses caregiver stress, body image and eating concerns, bipolar mood issues, ADHD, and grief. Genna aims to help people reduce needless despair and regain a clearer sense of their own worth.

Sessions focus on recognizing reactions, practicing different behaviors, and making choices aligned with personal values. She frames work as an ongoing process and offers steady listening and direct feedback to help clients move forward.

How her therapeutic approaches translate to online work