About Giovanna
Giovanna Agostinelli is a licensed mental health counselor who aims to make therapy straightforward and approachable. She speaks plainly and listens closely to understand what’s causing stress or sadness. Her style is practical and focused on helping people manage day-to-day problems and feel more steady over time.
Giovanna uses tools from cognitive behavioral work to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new responses. She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help clients clarify values and take small steps toward them.
Background and approach
Attachment-based work guides conversations about how early relationships affect current patterns. With eight years of experience, she has supported people coping with anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, grief, and addiction. She pays attention to cultural background and identity, including issues faced by LGBT people and those navigating complicated family systems.
Sessions may include skill practice, focused talk, and planning simple experiments to test new ways of coping. Giovanna tailors methods to each person rather than using a single script for everyone. She balances practical strategies with attention to emotions and meaning.
Giovanna is licensed in Florida as an LMHC and also holds a comparable license in Utah. Services are offered in English and are delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. The goal is steady progress that fits into daily life.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and practicing new behaviors to reduce distress, which often works well in structured online sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and can guide work on intimacy, trust, and family dynamics.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and recommend methods that fit those aims. That collaborative planning helps keep sessions focused and practical while allowing adjustments over time.
Online formats offer practical flexibility: video calls allow a face-to-face experience similar to in-person sessions; phone meetings can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed; live chat and text messaging suit shorter updates, ongoing skill coaching, or when writing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and other daily demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Utah
- Languages
- English