Molly Giannotta, LMHC

Molly Giannotta is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida with nine years of clinical experience working with adults, children, adolescents, and families. She holds the LMHC credential - Licensed Mental Health Counselor - and is also a Nationally Certified Counselor and a Registered Play Therapist, qualifications that reflect specialized training in counseling standards and therapeutic play techniques. Molly has developed additional skills in infant mental health, sand tray therapy, nurturing parent training, and child-parent relationship therapy, and she often integrates expressive arts into treatment when appropriate to offer alternative ways of processing difficult experiences.

Molly approaches care from a client-centered stance combined with cognitive therapy techniques, tailoring interventions to each person or family she supports. Her clinical focus has centered on trauma since graduate school, particularly work with abuse, while also addressing a broad range of concerns such as anxiety, parenting challenges, attachment difficulties, ADHD, grief, anger, and relationship and family problems. She has experience teaching college courses in Child Psychology and Psychology of Personality, an educational background she says enhances her clinical perspective.

Known for a compassionate, supportive style, Molly aims to be a steady resource for clients navigating life transitions and healing from past wounds. She welcomes collaborations with individuals and families seeking practical tools, emotional processing, and stronger relational connections.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on the ways early relationships shape how people connect and feel safe with others. This approach helps clients explore patterns of closeness, separation, and trust, and is often useful for those dealing with attachment issues, adoption and foster care concerns, or family relationship challenges.

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the client’s own perspective and strengths, offering a supportive, nonjudgmental space where clients lead the pace of work. This method is helpful for building self-esteem, processing life changes, and strengthening coping skills.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers practical strategies to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, often easing symptoms of anxiety, stress, and mood-related concerns while providing tools for problem solving.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Molly works collaboratively with clients to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and personal preferences. She adapts techniques over time so therapy remains relevant and effective.

Online therapy provides flexible options for engaging in care through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, access licensed professionals from different locations, and maintain continuity of care during life transitions or when in-person sessions are not feasible.