Giannine Lioi, LMSW
Relationship Coach

My Approach

My coaching blends emotional mastery, spiritual psychology, and grounded self-awareness. Together, we uncover the patterns that keep you emotionally guarded, reconnect you to your body and heart, and help you experience the freedom that comes when you stop running from fear. I am trained in Internal Family Systems and have over 20 years of experience as a massage therapist, Iyenagar Yogi, and Strength and Conditioning Coach.

Why Work With Me?

✔ Expertise You Can Trust
Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT) and Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW), with advanced training in exercise physiology, psychology, and Iyengar yoga.

✔ I help you feel safe feeling again.
You’ll learn to access your emotions without being overwhelmed by them. You can move from numbness or fear into genuine aliveness, connection, and peace.

✔ I bridge psychology, spirituality, and real-world growth.
My approach blends emotional awareness, nervous system regulation, and spiritual insight. I help you find both inner calm and deeper meaning in everyday life.

✔ I guide you through fear, not around it
Together we face what’s been avoided: grief, uncertainty, even the fear of death, and in doing so, you’ll discover the freedom, intimacy, and purpose that only come from living fully awake.

When Everything Looks Fine
But Doesn’t Feel Fine”

The Journey

The Ordinary World

You’ve built a structured, stable life.
People see you as strong, capable, and put-together.
Yet underneath that strength lives a quiet ache you rarely name.

After your divorce, the idea of dating again brought up a level of anxiety you didn’t expect.
You started questioning your judgment, your worth, and whether opening your heart again is even safe.

Recognizing the Polarity

Your fears get loud.
You overthink.
You pull away.
Your stomach knots before dates.
Old wounds make vulnerability feel dangerous.

A part of you whispers:
“Maybe it’s easier to stay alone than be disappointed again.”

And still there is another part of you that longs for connection.
Not rushed or fragile love,
but a mature, steady, deeply aligned partnership.

You want to believe in romantic love again.
You catch yourself imagining what life could look like if it actually felt safe, compatible, and real.

The Call to Change

You’ve been waiting to be chosen, waiting for someone to see your heart.
But something inside you knows: it’s time to become the active creator of the love you desire.

Empowered by your values, guided by clarity, and driven by the relationship you truly want, you feel the pull to shift.

Your healing doesn’t begin with bravery.
It begins with curiosity.

Curiosity about why dating feels so heavy.
Why your body reacts like love is a threat?
Why you shrink, shut down, or settle, even while craving connection?

And step by step, you begin rebuilding the relationship with yourself.

Then comes the moment you decide:
You’re done carrying the weight of your past.
You’re done repeating old patterns.
You’re done abandoning yourself just to be chosen.

You choose truth over fear.
You choose you.

During Our Work Together

You’ll start to notice powerful shifts:

• You stop second-guessing your worth.

• You advocate for your needs with confidence.

• You spot red flags early.

• You trust yourself to walk away from what’s misaligned.

• You stop shrinking.

• You attract emotionally available people.

Most importantly:
You like who you are in relationships, not just outside of them.

The Transformation

Something deep clicks into place.

You begin showing up authentically;
not from fear, not from performance,
but from grounded self-trust.

Dating stops feeling like a test you need to pass.
It becomes an expression of who you are.
Your truth matters.
Your boundaries matter.
You matter.

And from this place, you naturally attract a different kind of love:
aligned, reciprocal, calm, and truly complementary.

The Return: A New Way of Being

You realize you didn’t just learn how to date again.
You learned how to trust yourself again.
How to open your heart without abandoning it.
How to choose love from strength instead of fear.

This becomes your new way of being:
solid, clear, emotionally grounded, empowered.