About Giovanna
Giovanna Pennick is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and life transitions. She meets clients where they are and focuses on practical steps that make daily life feel more manageable. Conversations are calm and direct, aimed at reducing overwhelm and building clearer strategies for coping.
Giovanna draws on client-centered work to create a respectful space where people feel heard. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and shift them into actions that lead to small wins.
Background and approach
Dialectical behavior tools and mindfulness practices are woven in when emotions feel intense and regulation skills are needed. Her approach is collaborative. Sessions are tailored to each person's needs, with clear goals and short-term strategies when those fit best.
She also supports longer-term work for deeper patterns like trauma, grief, or persistent self-esteem concerns. Clients who are juggling caregiving, blended family stress, career pressure, or the fallout from divorce and separation often seek her practical guidance. She also addresses issues related to prejudice, multicultural stress, and the strain of caregiving roles.
Giovanna has four years of professional experience in counseling. She offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, and text messaging to fit different rhythms and schedules. Conversations are conducted in English and provided under her Texas LPC credential.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. In online sessions this means the therapist follows the client's lead, reflects concerns clearly, and works at the client's pace to set goals that feel doable.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps people spot thinking patterns that increase anxiety or depression and replace them with practical changes they can try between sessions. DBT skills add techniques for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness when relationships feel strained.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try strategies together, and refine the plan based on what helps most. That collaborative testing helps identify whether short-term, solution-focused work or longer skill-building is the best fit.
Online formats used include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and visual cues, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging is helpful for quick check-ins or notes between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and across different schedules.
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What this therapist 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
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