Genna Lo Presti , LCSW

Genna Lo Presti is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 22 years of clinical experience helping people navigate relationship struggles, trauma, addiction, mood concerns, and life transitions. She approaches care with an appreciation for the larger context of a person's life - how family patterns, workplace stress, and past wounds shape present-day reactions and self-worth. Genna blends practical, evidence-informed strategies with humanistic respect for each person's story, drawing on approaches that include acceptance and commitment work, attachment-focused care, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, and emotionally-focused interventions.

Her clinical path includes undergraduate and graduate study followed by professional licensure as a clinical social worker in 2014, and years of practice in acute psychiatric and behavioral health settings. That background informs an ability to work with complicated presentations - from addiction and eating concerns to grief, compulsive behaviors, mood instability, attachment difficulties, and caregiving stress. Genna emphasizes strengths, invites curiosity about reactionary patterns, and helps people reclaim a sense of value eroded by unresolved trauma and insecure attachments.

In sessions she balances direct clinical work with warmth, occasional humor, and a willingness to meet people where they are. She aims to guide clients toward greater flexibility and self-compassion while respecting the uniqueness of each person’s experience. Genna offers attentive listening and a steady, nonjudgmental presence for those seeking change.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Genna draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help clients clarify personal values, notice unhelpful thinking patterns, and move toward meaningful actions even in the presence of difficult emotions. ACT is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions when people want to reduce struggle and increase valued living.

She also integrates Attachment-Based Therapy to explore how early relationship patterns influence current intimacy, trust, and emotional regulation. This work is aimed at improving relationship dynamics, healing from abandonment or insecure attachments, and building more secure ways of relating.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Genna works with each person to identify their goals, preferences, and what feels most effective, adjusting methods as needed rather than prescribing a single path. Clients and therapist together determine the best strategies for the work ahead.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for busy schedules, mobility limits, or geographic distance. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care, fit sessions into daily life, and access licensed professionals without sacrificing the quality of therapeutic connection.