About Laurence
Laurence Scappa, LCSW, uses a practical, client-centered style to help people manage anxiety, stress, addiction, and relationship concerns. He speaks plainly and focuses on real changes people can notice in daily life. His approach asks what matters to each person and builds on existing strengths.
He brings 40 years of experience in clinical settings and personal work across New Jersey. That background informs a steady, experienced presence in sessions. Laurence helps people tackle panic attacks, obsessive thoughts, and phobias with tools they can use between meetings.
Background and approach
In sessions he draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thinking and on acceptance and commitment principles to clarify values and next steps. He also uses client-centered listening and emotion-focused techniques to repair connection and increase self-understanding. These approaches are offered in plain language and matched to each person's needs.
People often come for help with addiction, whether to drugs, alcohol, or sexual behaviors. Laurence addresses cravings, relapse patterns, and the shame or guilt that often follows. He also supports work on intimacy problems, communication breakdowns, and control issues.
Therapy with him aims to be collaborative. He helps set realistic goals and practices coping strategies together with the person in session. Over time the focus shifts from managing immediate distress to building more satisfying daily routines and relationships.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Laurence often integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy into online work. ACT helps people notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that match their values rather than getting stuck in avoidance. It is useful for anxiety, panic, and patterns tied to shame or addiction. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors, which can reduce panic attacks, obsessive thoughts, and phobic avoidance.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals and preferences and adjust methods over time. Together they choose exercises and skills that fit the persons day-to-day life and build small, achievable steps toward change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face work, phone sessions when bandwidth is low, live chat for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a workday, manage quick check-ins after challenging moments, or use a shorter format when being on camera is not ideal.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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