About Laura
Laura Chinnici is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 13 years of experience practicing in New Jersey. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, improve sleep, and build self-esteem. She also addresses intimacy and sexuality concerns, including work with alternative lifestyles.
Her approach is flexible and person-centered. She listens first, then adapts conversations and plans to each person’s situation. Sessions aim to be practical and straightforward so people can try new skills between meetings.
Background and approach
Laura integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to help people notice and tolerate strong emotions. Narrative Therapy is part of her toolkit to help clients reframe personal stories and reduce shame.
Her work includes supporting people facing grief, trauma, relationship and family stress, addiction concerns, parenting challenges, and career strain. She also helps with chronic illness, caregiver stress, and end-of-life issues when those concerns come up in conversation. Laura treats people respectfully and with compassion.
She aims to create a space where clients can talk honestly and try out concrete steps toward change. Taking the first step can feel hard, and she notes that deciding to reach out is an important action toward feeling better.
How her approaches translate to online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to the person in front of the therapist. Online sessions give time to talk through concerns and shape goals together so the work fits each person's life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes. In remote sessions this often means setting brief tasks between meetings and reviewing what worked. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce overwhelm and improve sleep; these exercises can be guided in a video call or reinforced through text reminders.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with clients to choose methods that match their needs and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time based on what people report and what helps them meet their goals.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text messaging allow quick reflections, brief coaching, or follow-up between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the approaches described above.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
Also works with
- 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