Lawrence Goncalves Jr., LICSW

Lawrence Goncalves Jr. is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) based in Washington with 25 years of experience. He works with adults on common struggles such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting strain, sleep problems, and anger. He also addresses substance use, bipolar symptoms, and relationship and family concerns.

Lawrence began his career after earning a B.A. in Juvenile Counseling from the University of Washington and later completed a Master of Social Work at the same university. Early work included community mental health, youth group homes, domestic violence shelters, and juvenile justice settings. That background shaped a practical approach to everyday problems.

He draws on client-centered work alongside Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Existential Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to help people manage emotions and behavior. Sessions focus on real skills and clear steps - for example, learning ways to notice triggers, try different responses, and practice new habits between meetings.

Lawrence also supports people facing attachment and abandonment concerns, blended-family stresses, caregiver burden, co-morbidity, codependency, communication issues, dissociation, separation and divorce, and fatherhood questions. He works with people from varied cultural and ethnic backgrounds and with different life stages.

Practical problem solving and steady discussion are central to his style. He aims to leave clients thinking and functioning more effectively than when they started. Prospective clients are encouraged to use the site flow to match and schedule a first session.

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