About Loretta
Loretta Cioffi is a New York licensed clinical social worker with 39 years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationships, grief, depression, and helping people cope with major life changes. Loretta aims to meet people where they are and treat them with respect and sensitivity.
Her approach is practical and straightforward. Conversations are shaped around the person in front of her, not a one-size-fits-all plan. She works with each client to set clear goals and small steps that fit day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Loretta has long experience supporting people facing loss and hard transitions. She also helps with concerns related to attachment, abandonment, adoption and foster care, and blended family challenges. She supports people managing chronic illness, caregiving strain, and aging-related issues.
Sessions often address communication, codependency, commitment and control issues, and body image. Loretta listens for patterns that make stress and anxiety worse, and then helps people try practical ways to change them. She emphasizes steady progress over quick fixes.
Getting started is treated as a first step together. Loretta will tailor conversations and a plan to each person’s needs. She recognizes that beginning therapy takes courage and frames the work as a cooperative process.
Evidence-based methods and flexible online sessions
Loretta uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach emphasizes identifying patterns that maintain anxiety or depression and trying new, manageable habits to shift those patterns. This helps people who feel stuck in unhelpful routines or thoughts.Another approach centers on grief and loss work, which involves naming feelings, creating ways to remember important relationships, and finding daily rhythms that support coping. This can help people process bereavement, major life transitions, or ongoing caregiving strain.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Loretta works with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and life situation, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made. The aim is to match techniques to what the person needs and prefers.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit into a busy day, and chat or text options suit shorter check-ins or times when not being on camera helps. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to fit sessions into work and family schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 39 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English