About Giovanna
Giovanna Pennick greets people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure where to start. She focuses on clear, practical steps that help reduce stress and manage anxiety. Giovanna listens first, then helps people name priorities and try small changes that can make daily life easier.
Giovanna is a Licensed Professional Counselor, licensed in Texas, with four years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing relationship strain, family concerns, grief, trauma, career stress, and challenges with self-esteem.
Background and approach
She also supports people coping with life transitions, caregiver stress, blended family issues, and concerns related to identity and discrimination. Her approach centers on collaboration. She uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to each person.
Giovanna draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking, and dialectical skills to manage intense emotions and build coping strategies. Sessions include practical tools and brief experiments to test new ways of handling problems. Mindfulness exercises and solution-focused conversations help people find doable changes between appointments.
Giovanna adapts the pace to each person, balancing immediate relief with longer-term goals. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and steady support while people work toward clearer direction. If someone is ready to change how they handle stress, relationships, or life transitions, she helps them take the next steps and keep going.
How Giovanna Uses Practical Approaches Online
Giovanna mixes client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify what matters and change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Client-centered work means she listens closely and follows the person's priorities, while CBT offers exercises to test thoughts and practice new habits. Dialectical behavior therapy adds skills for managing strong emotions and improving distress tolerance, which can be useful for anger, relationship strain, or intense anxiety.Choosing the right approach is part of the process and she makes that a team effort. She will talk with each person about their goals, try a few methods, and adjust based on what helps most. The plan can shift over time as needs and priorities change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone works well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging let people share between sessions and use words at their own pace. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or other demands while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English