About Laura
Laura Hennessy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in New Jersey. She brings 13 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, substance use concerns, and trauma. Laura emphasizes a warm, respectful approach that values each person’s experience and aims to build motivation for change.
Before moving into independent practice work she spent much of her career at a nonprofit community mental health center. There she supported adults and adolescents facing mental health and substance use difficulties.
How Laura works
That background shaped her practical focus on engagement, insight, and finding workable steps forward. In sessions she listens closely and helps people name what matters most to them. She uses straightforward tools to address unhelpful thinking, improve relationship patterns, and reduce risky behaviors.
Mindfulness practices and motivational techniques are offered when they fit a person’s goals. People who want a collaborative, down-to-earth therapist tend to fit well with her style. She encourages small, achievable changes and celebrates progress along the way.
Laura also gives space to process painful histories such as sexual assault and other trauma when clients bring those issues. Her areas of focus include relationship and intimacy concerns, addiction and recovery, mood and bipolar disorders, anger and self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
She supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment wounds, codependency, communication and control issues, and feelings of isolation or emptiness.
Laura lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Laura works with
The areas below are the ones Laura selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and collaborating with each person to identify their priorities and goals. It helps when someone needs a trusting space to talk through emotions and decide what change looks like for them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thinking patterns and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood swings, or address addiction-related urges. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and change patterns in close relationships by naming emotions and trying new ways of connecting. Choosing the right approach is part of the work itself. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, test a few techniques, and adjust the plan based on what feels helpful. That collaborative process makes it easier to find methods that fit a person’s life and needs. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper processing, while phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited or to fit a break during the day. Live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins, motivational prompts, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy schedule.Start online instead of waiting
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