Giovonni Hinton
New to Grow
You have been holding it together for so long that falling apart started to feel like a betrayal. Of your family. Of everyone who is counting on you. Of the version of yourself you worked so hard to become. So instead of feeling it, you found other ways to get through the night. The scroll. The glass of wine. The food that fills something that isn't hunger. Whatever it takes to take the edge off a life that should feel good by now but somehow still doesn't. And then someone you love said something, or looked at you a certain way, and something in you cracked open just enough to see it. That maybe this isn't just stress. That maybe you have been disappearing for a long time and calling it strength. You are not broken. But you have been abandoning yourself, and some part of you has always known it. This is the space where that stops. Where you are finally allowed to put it down, feel what you have been outrunning, and remember who you are underneath all of it. Not the strong one. Not the dependable one. Just you — which has always been more than enough. When you are ready, I am here to welcome you to the therapy space.
Get to know me
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
Our first session is an intake, which means it is really about me getting to know you. We will explore who you are, what is bringing you in, how long you have been carrying it, and what you are hoping to find on the other side of it. Think of it as the beginning of a map we are drawing together. I will ask questions, and I want you to answer them as honestly as you can, knowing that nothing you say will be met with judgment. This is a space where you are allowed to be exactly where you are. You do not have to have it figured out. You do not have to perform okayness. You just have to show up. I also want you to know that while this work is deep, it does not have to be heavy every single moment. Humor lives in this room too, when it is real and when it fits. Sometimes laughter is its own kind of release, and I will never be too clinical to recognize that. By the end of our first session, my goal is for you to leave feeling seen, heard, and like you can breathe a little easier than when you walked in.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
What stands out most is that I treat you like a whole person, not a diagnosis. I am not here to put you in a box or hand you a generic coping skills worksheet and call it healing. I bring together evidence based methods like Solution Focused Brief Therapy, Mindfulness, and Shadow Work, and I hold them alongside something that cannot be clinically trained. Deep intuition, genuine care, and the ability to meet you exactly where you are. I am also a poet and a writer, which means I listen differently. I hear what is said and what is not said. I notice the language you use to describe your life, because the stories we tell ourselves are often where the real work begins. My approach is warm, collaborative, and culturally conscious. I understand what it means to heal in a body that has been told it is too much or not enough. I understand the particular weight carried by women of color, first generation daughters, and anyone who has had to figure out survival before they ever got to figure out themselves. What I hope clients walk away with is not just relief, but transformation. Not just better days, but a deeper relationship with who they are. That is the work I am most committed to, and it is what makes this feel like more than a job.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
I am best positioned to serve the people who are done pretending they're okay. The ones who have been holding everything together for everyone else and are quietly falling apart on the inside. The ones who wake up tired, not because they didn't sleep, but because they are exhausted from carrying so much for so long. I work best with people who are ready. Not perfect, not fearless, but ready. Ready to look at their lives honestly. Ready to do the inner work even when it's uncomfortable. Ready to stop outsourcing their peace to other people, other circumstances, other versions of themselves that feel impossibly far away. My clients are often those who have never seen themselves reflected in a therapist's office. Those who grew up in homes where therapy was a foreign concept, where you prayed it away or pushed through it or just didn't talk about it. Those who are now navigating careers, relationships, identity and healing all at the same time, often without a roadmap. I also work with people who are in the middle of a life transition. A breakup that cracked something open. A career shift that made them question everything. A moment where the life they built no longer fits the person they are becoming. These are the moments that feel like falling apart but are actually invitations to grow into something truer.
Anxiety
LGBTQ
Self Esteem
Coping Skills
Depression
Family Conflict
Hispanic / Latinx
LGBTQ
Person of Color (POC)
Woman
District of Columbia
Arlo
Location
VirtualMy treatment methods
Solution Focused Brief Treatment
Life doesn't always give us the luxury of time, and sometimes what we need most is to find our footing again. Not to excavate every wound, but to remember we have everything inside us to move forward. That's the heart of Solution Focused Brief Therapy. I use this approach because I believe you are the expert on your own life. My job isn't to pathologize you or keep you stuck in what went wrong; it's to help you reconnect with what's already working, what you've already survived, and what you actually want your life to feel like. Together we get clear on where you want to go, and we build from there. We name your strengths. We find the exceptions: the moments when the anxiety wasn't so loud, when the relationship felt easier, when you felt like yourself. And we use those moments as a map. This isn't about bypassing your pain. It's about not letting it be the only story we tell.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
So much of our suffering lives in the gap between where we are and where we think we should be. Mindfulness Based Therapy is about learning to close that gap, not by forcing yourself to "be positive," but by learning to actually be with yourself. I use this approach because I've seen what happens when we spend our whole lives running from our own inner world. The anxiety gets louder. The exhaustion goes bone deep. Mindfulness gives us a way back in: gently, without judgment. We learn to notice the thoughts without becoming them. We learn to feel without being swept away. And slowly, you build a relationship with yourself that is honest, compassionate, and grounded so when life gets loud, you have somewhere steady to come home to.
Jungian
We all carry parts of ourselves we've been taught to hide: the anger, the grief, the need, the parts that didn't feel safe to be seen. Shadow work is the practice of turning toward those parts instead of away from them. In our sessions, we'll gently bring what's been buried into the light, not to shame it, but to understand it and integrate it. Because the moment you stop fighting yourself is the moment everything starts to shift.