About Genevieve
Genevieve (Genny) Gravina offers a warm, client-centered approach that keeps each person’s experience at the center of therapy. She uses clear, practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy alongside mindfulness and narrative methods. Genny is a licensed mental health counselor, licensed in New York, with six years of experience working with a range of concerns.
She helps people facing stress, anxiety, and depression. She supports those coping with life changes, relationship and intimacy difficulties, and challenges with self-esteem.
Background and approach
Genny also addresses eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, and mood concerns such as bipolar disorder and Seasonal Affective Disorder. In sessions she focuses on skills you can use between meetings. That might mean learning coping strategies from CBT to change unhelpful thought patterns.
It could include DBT skills for managing intense emotions or mindfulness exercises to steady the nervous system. Narrative techniques are used to help people reframe their personal stories and find new perspectives. Genny is practiced at helping with family conflict, communication problems, codependency, and attachment-related struggles.
She also works with issues like body image, guilt and shame, isolation, and life-purpose questions. Her style is straightforward and empathetic, aiming to make therapy feel manageable and practical. Sessions include collaborative goal-setting and short-term plans when helpful.
People who want a mix of skill-building and deeper reflection often find her approach useful. She offers care in English and sees clients in New York.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered work focuses on listening and building a collaborative relationship. In online sessions this looks like checking goals, asking what matters most, and shaping each meeting around the person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, which can help with intense emotions and relationship struggles.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to identify which methods fit best based on goals and preferences. That may mean starting with skills-based CBT and adding mindfulness or narrative work as needed. Sessions are shaped together so people feel the plan makes sense for their life.
Online therapy here is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction for skill coaching and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter space is easier to arrange. Live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins, quick skill refreshers, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English