I’m Gina Piccalo Howe —a former Los Angeles Times staff writer, journalist, certified astrologer, and Marriage and Family Therapy intern pursuing clinical licensure. My work has long existed at the intersection of psyche and culture. Today, I work through two distinct professional practices: supervised psychotherapy through Nashville Therapy Group and astrology consultations through my independent astrology practice. I help clients make meaning of complex transitions with insight that is emotionally deep, intellectually rigorous, and grounded in pattern recognition.

From cultural critique to symbolic interpretation

My professional life began in journalism. I spent years reporting on culture, power, creativity, and public life, learning how to listen closely, ask more precise questions, and locate the deeper story beneath the surface. That orientation has remained central to everything I do.

Astrology became a parallel language for meaning-making, one that helped me understand timing, relationship dynamics, identity, and the hidden emotional structures that shape a life. Over time, my work with astrology clients deepened my interest in family systems, attachment, trauma, and the process of lasting relational change. That evolution eventually led me to pursue graduate training in Marriage and Family Therapy.

Two distinct ways of working with me

As a Marriage and Family Therapy intern, I provide supervised psychotherapy to adults, couples, and families through Nashville Therapy Group. My clinical interests include family-of-origin patterns, relational trauma, attachment, neurodivergence, emotional regulation, identity, and significant life transitions.

Separately, I offer astrology consultations for people seeking symbolic insight into personal patterns, relationships, and periods of change. Astrology consultations are not psychotherapy or mental-health treatment.

Across both areas of my work, I bring close listening, intellectual rigor, emotional depth, and a strong capacity for recognizing the patterns beneath the presenting story.

I see psychotherapy clients in person in Nashville and online where permitted through Nashville Therapy Group. Astrology consultations are scheduled separately available online.

Background

• Former staff writer, Los Angeles Times

• Former senior writer, The Daily Beast

• Published in major media outlets including The Telegraph

• Certified Deep Transformational Coach

• Clinical intern in Marriage and Family Therapy at Lipscomb University, Nashville Therapy Group

• Founder, Nashville Astrology Club

• Astrology research published on Substack, The Mountain Astrologer and elsewhere.

Featured Interviews

• Honoring the Chiron Return on The Nature of Invisible Things

• Using astrology for career, self-development on Grace Grit and Getting It Done

• With OmTimes: Chiron in Aries

• On the Great Conjunction and the Age of Aquarius with Sisters Speak

• The Getty Museum’s Art Break: Astrology Goes Online

• Astrology as a tool for navigating midlife on The Filthy MILFs podcast

• A conversation with master astrologer Sam Reynolds on letting go with the Virgo South Node.

• If It’s Not 1 Thing It’s Your Mother: Gina Piccalo reads from her not yet published memoir. When you had a troubled childhood and your daughter wants you to tell her bedtime stories from that time, how do you play it? 

• On memoir-writing with Writing Forum.

Current scope of work

This website is the home of my writing, astrology practice, and transformational offerings. I do not currently offer psychotherapy or represent myself as a licensed therapist through this site.