Genna Lo Presti, LCSW
Florida · 22 years in practice
Genna Lo Presti is a licensed clinical social worker who brings 22 years of experience to therapy.
License and registration
- LCSW, Florida
- SW11266 · expires March 2027
- NPI
- 1518133933 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 22
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Genna
Genna Lo Presti is a licensed clinical social worker who brings 22 years of experience to therapy. She favors an existential outlook that helps people find meaning and make deliberate choices in the face of anxiety, loss, and relationship strain. She believes everyday pressures and past wounds can erode self-worth.
In sessions she points out habitual ways people avoid closeness and helps them try different responses, like offering support instead of clinging.
Background and approach
She mixes straightforward talk with gentle humor to reduce tension and open new ways of relating. Genna trained first with a Bachelor of Arts in 2006 and a Master of Social Work in 2010, then earned her Florida LCSW in 2014.
Over two decades she has worked in acute psychiatric and behavioral health settings, bringing practical tools alongside deeper reflections about life choices and values. Her work blends evidence-based techniques such as cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy with attachment-focused and client-centered approaches.
This combination lets her address symptoms like anxiety, depression, or trauma while also looking at patterns that affect intimacy, self-esteem, and relationships. People come to her for a range of concerns including addictions, grief, parenting stress, LGBT issues, eating concerns, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
She listens closely, tunes into each person’s world, and helps them notice small changes that can reduce suffering and increase connection.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Genna lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Depression
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Genna names
- Existential Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Genna integrates existential therapy to help people name what matters and make clearer choices about their lives. Existential work looks at meaning, freedom, and responsibility when facing anxiety, grief, or major life changes.She also uses acceptance and commitment therapy, which focuses on noticing painful thoughts and choosing valued actions instead of getting stuck in avoidance. Attachment-based work is used to help people understand patterns that affect closeness, trust, and communication in relationships.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences, and together they will decide which methods to emphasize as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video gives face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a typed check-in, and messaging supports brief updates between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines while keeping the focus on meaningful change.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does this therapist address?
She works with a wide range of concerns such as addictions, trauma and abuse, depression, anxiety, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting stress, eating concerns, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach combines existential perspectives with practical methods like cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy, plus attachment-focused and client-centered work to balance meaning-making and symptom-focused care.
What is her professional background?
She has 22 years of clinical experience and has worked in acute psychiatric and behavioral health settings, bringing both practical skills and reflective, meaning-focused perspectives.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds a Florida LCSW and practices in Florida.
Which languages are supported and are international clients taken?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
In what formats are sessions offered?
Sessions can be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are needed to begin therapy?
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