Milo Giovanniello, LCSW
therapist
I can support you to recognize patterns that are no longer serving you and to begin to shift them, while honoring the ways those patterns have helped you to survive so far.
I come to my work as a therapist with a background in community organizing to end policing and incarceration. I bring a sharp analysis of the harms of racial capitalism, and a commitment to fighting to build a better world.
I’m particularly excited to serve community organizers, people navigating burnout and grief, people newly coming to understand themselves as autistic or neurodivergent, and people struggling to discover their own place in struggles for liberation.
I firmly believe that when we show up more fully for ourselves and our own healing work, we can also show up more fully to build the world we need and deserve.
Trauma, whether relational, systemic, or both, can sever our connection to self and others.
I believe therapy can help us to rebuild a sense of connection to self and others.
I believe that all humans heal in relationships, and that any healing we do is two-sided. My own experiences of healing deeply inform the work I do with clients.
As a therapist, I draw on the frameworks of Marxism, anti-capitalism, anti-imperialism, Black liberation struggles, Palestinian liberation struggles, and the disability justice movement. As a former preschool teacher, I also draw on my learned understandings of human nervous systems, early childhood development, and play. I strive to bring a playfulness and warm attunement to your needs to our work together.
My work is deeply informed by internal family systems theory, which means I seek to honor all of the parts of you and to support you in finding a deeper sense of wholeness and connection to yourself. I also bring a psychodynamic lens to my work, meaning I’m thinking about how the past informs the present and how harm we survived in previous relationships may shape our present-day.
Therapy is a space where you can show up as your full, uncensored self and know you will be met with acceptance, honesty, and love.
I often work with folks who are:
- navigating deep loneliness
- struggling to make meaning in their lives
- struggling to create relationships that feel connected and fulfilling.
I’m especially excited to work with:
- people who struggle to accept their own feelings,
- people who have been told that they are too sensitive or too much, and who are learning to trust themselves.
- As a queer, trans, and neurodivergent person, I also love working with folks who hold those identities.