About Matteo
Matteo Capaccio is a licensed clinical social worker in New York who helps people facing anxiety, addiction, grief, mood changes, and stress. He aims to make the first step feel manageable and meets each person with steady, nonjudgmental support. He creates a space where clients can speak openly about difficult thoughts and feelings.
Conversations focus on practical next steps and finding what matters to the client. Matteo works to help people feel heard and to build skills they can use day to day.
Background and approach
In sessions he draws on several approaches, including client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques. That means Matteo listens closely, then helps identify patterns of thinking and small experiments to change unhelpful habits. He also uses motivational interviewing to boost readiness for change and psychodynamic ideas to trace repeated relationship patterns.
Across 24 years in practice he has helped people manage trauma and abuse, addiction, bipolar disorder, sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem, career stress, and compassion fatigue. He also addresses related concerns such as chronic illness, caregiving stress, and attachment difficulties. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs.
Matteo works in English and practices in New York. He supports people who want steady, pragmatic help during tough transitions.
How Matteo’s approaches work online
Matteo uses client-centered therapy to make sessions about the person in front of him, offering attentive listening and reflection to help people clarify what matters. This approach helps when someone needs a steady place to sort feelings or build confidence in change.He also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing small behavioral changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, sleep problems, anger, and mood shifts because it gives concrete tools to try between sessions.
Finding the right blend of methods is part of the work. Matteo will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then suggest approaches to try. That plan is adjusted as progress is made so clients stay involved in deciding what helps.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video allows face-to-face interaction for deeper dialogue. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, quick skills practice, or when written reflection feels more natural. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between appointments.
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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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