About Matteo
Matteo Capaccio welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure where to turn. He is a New York licensed clinical social worker with 24 years of experience. Matteo focuses on practical ways to manage anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, bipolar symptoms, and stress.
He offers calm, straightforward support for people trying to make changes in their lives. Matteo aims to make sessions a place to speak freely without judgment. He listens closely to what matters most to each person and helps clarify goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often include problem-solving, coping strategies, and ways to handle strong emotions. His background spans many care settings over two decades, giving him experience with complex health and life challenges. He works with people facing chronic pain, caregiver stress, and co-occurring issues.
Matteo also supports those dealing with attachment wounds, abandonment concerns, and relationship communication problems. He draws from approaches that help people practice new skills, rethink unhelpful thoughts, and increase motivation for change. The aim is steady progress through small, achievable steps.
Matteo explains options plainly and adapts methods to fit each person’s needs. People who choose him can expect a direct, compassionate style. He helps clients build routines, reduce distressing symptoms, and clarify next steps when life feels uncertain.
Sessions focus on what is useful now and what can be sustained over time.
Approaches that guide online work and progress
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building trust first. The therapist follows the person’s lead, reflects what they say, and helps them find their own solutions; this is useful for people who need acceptance and clearer direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood and actions. It uses practical exercises and skill-building to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful patterns. Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change. It uses guided conversation to boost motivation for things like reducing substance use or starting new routines.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Matteo collaborates with each person to test methods and adjust as goals become clearer. He explains options and together you decide which techniques to try first, then adapt the plan based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video works well for in-depth conversation and observing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option or easier during a busy day. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins, mood tracking, or when a written record of the conversation is helpful. These formats aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to attend around life commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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