About Lawrence
Lawrence Propper is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with forty years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, bipolar mood shifts, and relationship or family concerns. He uses practical, evidence-based techniques to help people reduce panic attacks and social anxiety.
Sessions often focus on clearer communication, dealing with control issues, and repairing problems that follow divorce or separation. He also supports people working through guilt, shame, loneliness, and questions about life purpose.
Background and approach
In the room he aims for straightforward conversation. He listens closely, helps people name what they are feeling, and then suggests small steps to try between sessions. The work often involves practicing new ways to talk with others and testing gentle changes in behavior.
Lawrence has taught at the college level and brings that experience into sessions by explaining ideas plainly and offering concrete exercises. His goal is to help people build stronger self-understanding and greater emotional resilience over time. He works from New York and conducts therapy in English.
Over decades of practice he has guided many people toward renewed connection, improved self-love, and clearer direction in life.
Approaches for anxiety and meaningful change online
He draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear goals and practical skills. One common approach is skills-based work to reduce panic and social anxiety, which teaches breathing, grounding, and stepwise exposure to feared situations to lower reactivity. Another element is communication-focused work that helps people practice clearer ways to express needs, set boundaries, and repair relationship patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist collaborates with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their life, and adjust strategies based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist check progress and shift focus as needed so the plan stays useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and in-session skill practice, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or visual focus is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short check-ins, homework support, or when a brief conversation fits a busy day. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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