About Lawrence
Lawrence Losoncy uses a blend of relationship-focused and client-centered work to help people sort through difficult family and personal issues. He is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Oklahoma with decades of experience.
Background and approach
His style is direct and practical so people leave sessions with clear steps to try at home. He offers help for relationship problems, parenting struggles, grief, intimacy concerns, and stress or anxiety.
He also works with addiction, trauma and abuse, sleeping problems, anger, low self-esteem, and depression. Lawrence has particular experience with adoption and foster care, autism and Asperger syndrome, blended family challenges, and issues around divorce and separation.
Over many years he has provided support for people coping with life changes, career doubts, compassion fatigue, and questions about life purpose or midlife crisis. He also assists people dealing with codependency, communication problems, dependent personality patterns, and forgiveness work.
He has written books that address work stress, child development, marriage, spiritual wound healing, and couples work. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented.
He listens, offers observations, and works with each person to build a simple plan of action. That includes concrete suggestions people can take home and try between sessions.
Lawrence has worked in community settings in Oklahoma and served in roles related to Indian child welfare. He brings 46 years of clinical experience and keeps work focused on practical changes that fit family life and daily routines.
Therapeutic approaches for online relationship and family work
Client-centered work focuses on understanding each person's experience and priorities. It involves open listening, reflecting what the person says, and helping them decide what matters most to change. This approach is useful for people who want a respectful, supportive setting to sort out feelings and goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together. It uses clear strategies and small experiments to reduce anxiety, manage depression, improve sleeping, and change unhelpful behavior patterns. People leave sessions with homework exercises to practice between meetings.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and shift the emotional patterns that keep relationship problems stuck. It can help with intimacy issues, communication problems, jealousy, and repairing hurts. The therapist and client work together to notice emotions and try new ways of responding.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk through options and tailor methods to the client's concerns, goals, and preferences in a collaborative way. Clients and the therapist check progress and adjust the plan as needed.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues for relationship and family conversations. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, written reflection, or when someone needs a quick follow-up between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 46 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English