Giovanna Agostinelli, LMHC, LCMHC
Compassionate counselor focusing on body and mind
About Giovanna
Giovanna Agostinelli is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, grief, and changes in life. She works plainly and directly to help clients feel understood and to find practical ways forward. Giovanna practices in Florida and brings eight years of experience to sessions.
She blends body-aware techniques with talk therapy. Somatic work helps people notice how stress and emotions show up in the body.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy offers tools to challenge unhelpful thoughts. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy supports people in clarifying values and taking small, meaningful steps. Her approach is client-centered and collaborative.
Sessions focus on what the person wants to change and on skills to cope between meetings. Giovanna also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. Giovanna has worked in a range of settings and with diverse backgrounds.
She pays attention to cultural context and tailors therapy to each person. She can address issues like trauma, parenting concerns, addiction, sexual identity matters, ADHD, chronic illness, and body image. Online options include video, phone, live chat, and text messaging for ongoing support.
Sessions are arranged to fit the person’s schedule and goals. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and a session is scheduled according to therapist availability.
How somatic and values-based therapy work online
Giovanna commonly combines Somatic Therapy with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas. Somatic work asks people to notice body sensations tied to stress and emotion and to use breath, movement, and grounding to reduce reactivity. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small steps that align with those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. Attachment-based ideas look at relationship patterns and help people create safer ways of relating in daily life. Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates to learn what feels most useful and adjusts methods as goals change. Sessions often mix body-focused exercises, practical skills, and reflective conversation to match the client’s preferences. Online therapy offers flexible ways to stay connected. Video calls allow face-to-face work and guided somatic exercises. Phone sessions and live chat can fit into busy days, and text messaging supports brief check-ins and skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to keep momentum and access support from wherever the client is based.Frequently asked questions
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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