Genna Lo Presti, LCSW

Genna Lo Presti is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with more than two decades of clinical experience. She approaches therapy with a focus on how relationships, past wounds, and daily stresses shape a person's sense of worth. Genna writes and talks plainly about the small patterns people use to avoid closeness and the ways those habits can lead to feeling stuck.

Genna draws on practical tools from cognitive behavioral methods and acceptance work to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and take action toward what matters. She also uses attachment-focused ideas to look at relationship patterns that repeat across time. Sessions are conversational and grounded in everyday language rather than clinical jargon.

Her background includes work in acute psychiatric and behavioral health settings, where she combined humanistic and trauma-informed ways of working with structured therapeutic techniques. That mix informs her steady, pragmatic style with room for compassion and humor.

Genna often helps people facing life transitions and identity shifts, including midlife concerns, grief, burnout, and changes in intimate relationships. She pays attention to how past loss, attachment wounds, and stressors affect how someone copes now.

In sessions she listens closely and offers concrete steps the person can try between meetings. She uses gentle challenges, storytelling, and occasional humor to make difficult topics easier to approach.

Therapy approaches you can use online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose values-driven actions. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and navigating major life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and can help with intimacy issues and repeated relationship struggles.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that match those needs. Treatment is collaborative, with the therapist and client deciding together which techniques to use and adjusting them as progress is made.

Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm available options before booking. In general, online therapy can make scheduling easier and help fit sessions into a busy day. It can reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and make it simpler to keep regular appointments during life transitions. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT and attachment-focused work to an online setting using conversation, worksheets, and exercises that can be practiced between meetings.