About Corey
Corey McSweeney is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York with nine years of professional experience. He practices in personal settings after earlier work at a county mental health clinic. Corey favors straightforward, honest work and aims to make sessions comfortable and productive for people facing anxiety and life stress.
Corey uses a structured but flexible style. He emphasizes building rapport first so conversations can be direct and useful.
Background and approach
He invites honest feedback and says openness makes therapy more effective. He also sometimes shares personal observations when it helps the conversation. Common concerns he helps people with include stress and anxiety, depression, panic, relationship and communication problems, anger, grief, and self-esteem.
He also has experience with ADHD, bipolar disorder, OCD, trauma and abuse, and coping with major life changes. He notes additional focus areas such as attachment issues, dissociation, and infidelity among others. Corey works with practical strategies and conversational exploration.
He draws from client-centered approaches, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative work to tailor sessions. Sessions are aimed at identifying useful steps and testing approaches that fit each person's goals. People who value a direct yet relaxed therapist may find his style a good match.
He encourages prospective clients to reflect on fit and to share preferences so the therapeutic relationship can begin on clear terms.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered work focuses on the person’s experience and preferences. It means sessions are guided by what matters most to the person and the therapist adjusts pace and tone to fit those needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers concrete skills to test between sessions. Mindfulness Therapy helps people notice thoughts and bodily reactions with less judgment and can reduce reactivity to stress.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Corey will talk with each person about goals, try methods that seem likely to help, and adjust the plan if something does not fit. That collaborative testing helps find what works without committing to a single method from the start.
Online formats offer flexible ways to meet and keep therapy consistent. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for teaching skills and role-play. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, homework, and timely coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy part of a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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