Shlomo Lawrence
Practical family-focused therapy with EMDR experience
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Florida, Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Shlomo
Shlomo Lawrence is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in Florida. He focuses on family and parenting concerns along with relationship and addiction issues. He helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and intimacy or communication struggles.
He also works with concerns such as ADHD, bipolar mood issues, eating and sleeping problems, and caregiver stress. His style is direct but caring. He listens closely and aims to build trust so parents and partners can talk openly.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize clear goals and practical steps. He draws on experience with couples, families, and individuals facing relationship and behavioral challenges. Lawrence has worked in community treatment settings and addiction programs, including services for people with co-occurring disorders.
He has many years supporting people affected by trauma and reports strong training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, commonly called EMDR. That background shapes how he approaches trauma and recovery. He combines client-centered listening with evidence-based tools such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
Mindfulness and motivational methods are also part of his practice. These approaches aim to change unhelpful patterns, improve coping, and strengthen relationships. Shlomo brings twelve years of professional experience and holds Texas and Florida LMFT credentials.
He offers sessions in English and practices from Florida. He provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different family schedules.
How his therapeutic methods translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship. It helps people feel heard and chosen approaches are shaped around what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to manage anxiety, mood, and relationship patterns. It is helpful for stress, depression, sleeping and eating concerns, and parenting challenges.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used to address traumatic memories and intense emotional reactions. Sessions use guided processing to reduce distress tied to those memories and improve day-to-day coping.
Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist talks with clients about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they choose and adjust methods so therapy fits the family's needs and pace.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work together. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that helps. Phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging make it easier to fit care into busy family schedules and to follow up between appointments. These options aim to make regular work on goals more practical for people managing home, work, and parenting demands.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Texas
- Languages
- English
Next step
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