About Matteo
Matteo Capaccio is a licensed clinical social worker with 24 years of experience based in New York. He focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, addiction, grief, depression, or major life changes. He aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through difficult thoughts and feelings and begin to make small, steady changes.
He uses practical, evidence-informed approaches that match each person's needs.
Background and approach
Sessions are built around clear goals and real steps people can try between meetings. Matteo listens closely to what matters to each person and adjusts the pace so progress feels manageable. His background includes long-term clinical work with people facing trauma, bipolar disorder, sleep problems, anger, and caregiving strain.
That experience informs how he notices patterns and helps clients develop new coping tools. He also addresses issues like self-esteem, career stress, and ADHD-related struggles. In sessions he blends client-centered conversation with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing to build motivation and change unhelpful thinking.
He may also draw on psychodynamic ideas to understand recurring patterns and solution-focused techniques to set short-term goals. Matteo supports people who want to reduce distress and regain control of daily life. He works in English and practices in New York.
The approach is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Approach and online session options that meet you where you are
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It starts with open listening and works from the client’s priorities, helping people feel heard and understood and then choose what to change. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and feelings interact and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and manage mood. Motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons to make changes and can be useful for addictions, ambivalence, or starting new habits.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Matteo collaborates with each person to identify goals and test methods that fit their life. He will help weigh options, adjust techniques, and shift focus as progress is made so the plan stays practical and meaningful.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can be used for brief check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options let people fit sessions into busy schedules and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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