About Laura
Laura Chinnici is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 13 years of experience providing therapy in New Jersey. She offers calm, straightforward support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, sleep problems, low self-esteem, motivation challenges, and intimacy-related concerns. Her approach centers on respectful, compassionate care that meets people where they are.
In sessions she focuses on practical steps and clear goals. She uses client-centered methods to follow each person's pace and priorities.
Background and approach
Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to spot unhelpful thinking and build new coping skills. Mindfulness practices help with grounding and managing racing thoughts. She also draws on motivational interviewing to boost readiness for change and narrative therapy to help people reframe their stories.
These approaches are mixed to match an individual's needs rather than applied in a one-size-fits-all way. That flexibility helps address a wide range of concerns, from relationship and intimacy questions to grief, addiction issues, chronic health struggles, and career stress. Sessions invite honest conversation about identity, sexuality, and alternative lifestyles without judgment.
She works with people across many life stages who face family-of-origin issues, caregiving strain, or transitions such as divorce and aging. The goal is to build practical skills, clarity, and emotional relief. Laura keeps things collaborative.
She will tailor treatment plans to each person's goals and pace. The first step is often a short conversation to figure out immediate priorities and next steps.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following each person's priorities. In online sessions this means the therapist centers your goals and adjusts pacing to what feels manageable, whether you need emotional support or practical problem solving.Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify patterns of thinking that feed anxiety and offers concrete tools to change those patterns. In remote sessions the therapist can guide thought records, plan behavioral experiments, and coach skills you can practice between meetings.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and grounding exercises to reduce stress and improve sleep. These brief practices can be led live during video or phone sessions and used in short text check-ins to build a daily habit.
Deciding which approach fits best is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with you about your goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps. That flexibility is part of the work and helps tailor care to your needs.
Online therapy offers practical benefits like flexible scheduling and easier access. Video calls let you use exercises that need visual cues. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick reflections, between-session support, and tracking progress when typing feels easier than speaking.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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