Gena Figliuzzi
Compassionate counseling for family and life challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Gena
Gena Figliuzzi is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in New Jersey who supports people facing stress, anxiety, relationship and family tensions, and challenges with self-esteem. She also helps clients cope with life changes, parenting struggles, anger, career concerns, and depression. Her style aims to make difficult conversations easier to begin and follow through.
Gena creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through what feels heavy. She encourages honest discussion about feelings, day-to-day pressures, and practical steps forward.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on understanding patterns and trying small changes that feel manageable. Her approach includes working with commitment issues, divorce and separation topics, family of origin dynamics, and common struggles such as guilt, shame, isolation, and forgiveness. She also addresses life purpose, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, and women’s health matters when they come up.
Gena draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide conversations and set goals. She partners with clients to build skills for coping with seasonal mood shifts, social anxiety, and improving self-love. The work often blends emotional support with hands-on strategies.
With seven years of experience, she brings steady practice and attention to each person’s situation. Conversations are practical and grounded, aimed at creating clearer next steps. The hope is to help people move toward a more manageable, less stressful daily life.
Practical therapeutic approaches for online family and life work
Gena uses evidence-based techniques that focus on clear skills and real problems. One common approach she uses teaches coping and stress-management skills to reduce anxiety and improve day-to-day functioning; this often includes simple breathing, grounding, and planning steps to try between sessions. Another approach focuses on identifying patterns in relationships and family dynamics so people can make different choices; this helps with communication, boundary setting, and managing conflict in everyday life.Finding the right way of working is part of the process. She collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their goals and comfort level, adjusting methods as progress is made. Clients help set priorities and test approaches so the plan always fits their needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let conversations feel more like in-person meetings, phone sessions can be a simpler option when schedules are tight, and live chat or text-based messaging provides ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy family routine and to access help from home or work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point