About Laura
Laura Hennessy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New Jersey. She brings 13 years of practice supporting people who struggle with stress, anxiety, mood changes, and substance use concerns. She writes simply and directly: feelings matter and deserve to be heard without judgment.
Her background includes years in a nonprofit community mental health center where she worked with adolescents and adults. That experience gave her regular exposure to co-occurring mental health and addiction concerns.
Background and approach
She focuses on engagement, building insight, and increasing motivation to make change. In sessions she listens first and follows the person’s lead. Laura uses client-centered methods to create a space where people can speak openly about what is hard.
She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help identify patterns of thought and behavior that maintain anxiety or depression. She blends emotion-focused methods when relationships or attachment issues are central. Mindfulness skills and motivational interviewing are used to support practical steps and to strengthen commitment to goals.
Conversations are straightforward and paced to match each person’s needs. People contact her about a range of concerns, including stress, panic or worry, recovery from substance use, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, anger, and relationship or intimacy challenges. She aims to help clients find clearer choices, small changes that stick, and a steadier sense of direction.
Approaches that guide online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s experience. It helps people feel heard and guides conversations toward what matters most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical tools to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to decide which methods fit best based on the person’s goals, concerns, and preferences. That collaborative planning can change over time as needs shift.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth work when visual cues are helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a voice check-in is preferred. Live chat or text messages support brief updates, quick coping checks, or flexible communication between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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