Genna Lo Presti, LCSW

Genna Lo Presti is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 22 years of experience helping people navigate complex emotional and relational challenges. She frames emotional struggles within the larger context of societal pressures, attachment patterns, and unresolved trauma, and emphasizes how these forces can erode self-worth and contribute to low self-esteem. Her work attends to the ways personal and professional environments shape reactions, and she encourages awareness of automatic, reactionary habits that can lead to needless despair.

Over the course of her career she has applied psychodynamic, existential, humanistic, cognitive behavioral, strength-based, inner child, and trauma-focused approaches across acute psychiatric and various behavioral health settings. Her training and clinical practice reflect a respect for the individual in relationship to their surroundings and a commitment to understanding the whole person rather than isolated symptoms. Genna earned her bachelor’s degree in 2006, her master’s degree in 2010, and achieved licensure as a Clinical Social Worker in 2014.

In session she blends earnest curiosity with levity, sometimes using humor and light impersonations to relieve tension and normalize the messiness of human experience. She helps people recognize the ordinary aspects of their struggles while also naming what makes each life distinct, with the aim of reducing overwhelm and increasing perspective. Genna is attentive and compassionate in her listening and brings sincere effort to understanding each person she meets.