Lawrence Flynn

LICSW25 years of experienceNext available
4.8 (64)
Solution oriented
Authentic
Intelligent

I am an experienced and compassionate behavioral health and wellness therapist driven by an authentic desire to guide and support anyone facing challenging individual or life difficulties. For 25 years, I have provided therapeutic mental health, addiction, relationship, family, crisis management, and wellness services for adults, couples, adolescents, children, families, aging adults, and veterans. I also provide Resilience and Success Coaching to individuals, executives, healthcare professionals, attorneys, and professional athletes.

I work with clients from a perspective that emphasizes their personal strengths, goals, and resources to create the positive change they are seeking.

First session

In our first session, we'll start with brief introductions and then explore your specific concerns and challenges. This will help us to create a tailored plan for us to work through in follow-up sessions that is unique and individualized to you as the client.

Strengths

My clinical approach is always client-centered, focusing on blending client concerns, circumstances, and personal goals with specific treatment and rehabilitative best practices strategies to ensure an effective treatment plan that is unique and individualized to you as the client. I work with clients from a perspective that emphasizes their personal strengths, goals, and resources to create the positive change they are seeking.

Ideal clients

I enjoy working with adults, couples, aging adults, and veterans who are seeking to make a positive change and are ready to take the first step toward a brighter future! My clinical approach is always client-centered with a focus on blending client concerns. Let’s work together on a proactive plan to help you bounce back and recover a sense of well-being.

Treatment methods

Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)

I have over 25 years of clinical practice. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a very effective evidence-based psychotherapy that focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful and incongruent thought patterns and behaviors and empowering my clients to better understand and manage their mental health concerns, improve their emotional well-being, and enhance their quality of life. I use CBT therapy strategies to treat anxiety, depression, substance abuse, relationship challenges, phobias, and chronic pain. My innovative use of CBT strategies includes establishing a rapport and trust with my client, identifying negative thought patterns, reframing negative thoughts and perspectives, incorporating coping skills and behavioral changes, and establishing and monitoring SMART therapeutic goals and objectives. Client Change in therapy often occurs in progressive stages through a combination of the development of a trusting therapeutic relationship between therapist and client, the client's increasing self-awareness of the reasons they are in therapy, and the successful understanding and application of best practice treatment techniques that help clients gain important personal insights, new coping strategies, and emotional health stability. Ultimately, therapy is working properly when the client successfully applies what they have learned in their treatment sessions to their daily lives.

Couples Counseling

Romantic and marriage relationships are always dynamic and reasonably navigating relational issues can be challenging for any couple. Our relationships and family systems are incredibly complex, as unique personalities interact together, each bringing their own perspectives, circumstances, and issues occasionally, a therapeutic solutions-focused intervention can be helpful to provide guidance, support, and a safe and confidential space to explore and navigate couple and family concerns and challenges. The key to creating healthy relationships is to mutually learn how to navigate couple and family challenges and conflicts in a supportive manner and resolve problems in a unified strengths-based approach. Most couples benefit from therapeutic services with a greater understanding of their relational patterns and the proactive skills to more effectively communicate and problem-solve challenges with their partners and family members. (1) Research conducted by the American Association of Marriage and Family found that over 97% of surveyed couples believe they got the help they needed from couples therapy. In addition, 93% of couples said therapy gave them more effective tools for dealing with conflict. My name is Lawrence Flynn, and I am an experienced and compassionate behavioral health therapist driven by an authentic desire to serve others in need. I am a Licensed Clinical social worker (LCSW) with over 24 years of providing supportive and high-quality therapeutic for adults, couples, adolescents, children, families, aging adults, and veterans. You can read more about my professional background, education, clinical experience, and therapy approach in my profile. My clinical approach is always client-centered with a focus on blending client concerns, circumstances, and personal goals with specific treatment and rehabilitative best practices strategies to ensure an effective treatment plan that is unique and individualized to you as the client. I work with clients from a perspective that emphasizes their personal strengths, goals, and resources to create the positive change they are seeking. This therapeutic approach is referred to as Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) which is a strength-based approach based on problem-solving and solution-building regarding the current reason(s) the client is seeking therapeutic services.

Solution Focused Brief Treatment

My clinical approach is always client-centered with a focus on blending client concerns, circumstances, and personal goals with specific treatment and rehabilitative best practices strategies to ensure an effective treatment plan that is unique and individualized to you as the client. I work with clients from a perspective that emphasizes their personal strengths, goals, and resources to create the positive change they are seeking. This therapeutic approach is referred to as Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT), which is a strength-based approach based on problem-solving and solution-building regarding the current reason(s) the client is seeking therapeutic services.

Location

Virtual sessions

Identifies as

  • Man

Top specialties

  • Anxiety

  • Couples Counseling

  • Military/Veterans

Other specialties

  • First Responders/Healthcare Workers

Serves

  • Adults (18 to 64)

  • Elders (65 and above)

Licensed in

  • FloridaLicense SW22064

  • MassachusettsLicense LICSW127431

  • VirginiaLicense 0904016002

  • WyomingLicense LCSW-447

Accepted insurance

  • Aetna

  • Aetna - ASR Health Benefits

  • Aetna - Allied Benefits

  • Aetna - Gravie

  • Aetna - Lucent Health

  • Aetna - Luminare

  • Aetna - Medicare

  • Aetna - Moda

  • Aetna - WebTPA

  • Aetna – HealthEZ

  • All Savers

  • Ambetter Health

  • Amerihealth NJ Medicare Advantage

  • Arlo

  • AvMed

  • Blue Benefit Administrators of Massachusetts (BBA)

  • Cash - $120 per session

  • Centivo

  • Cigna

  • Cigna - HealthEZ

  • EAP:Cigna

  • EAP:Evernorth

  • Evernorth

  • Blue Cross Blue Shield

  • Florida Blue

  • Anthem

  • Independence Administrators

  • Independence Blue Cross

  • Florida Blue - Medicare

  • Blue Cross Blue Shield - Medicare

  • Independence Personal Choice 65 PPO

  • Independence Keystone 65 HMO

  • GTEB

  • Golden Rule

  • Harvard Pilgrim

  • Harvard Pilgrim/UnitedHealthcare

  • Kaiser Permanente

  • Kaiser Permanente - Medicare

  • Medicare

  • UnitedHealthcare/Optum

  • Optum

  • OptumHealth Complex Medical Conditions

  • Oscar

  • Oxford

  • Surest (formerly Bind)

  • Tufts Health

  • Tufts Health/Cigna

  • United Medical Resources

  • UnitedHealthcare Life Insurance

  • UnitedHealthcare Shared Services

  • UnitedHealthcare StudentResources

Reviews and ratings

4.8 rating (64)5 reviews
May 26, 2026

Dr. Flynn is amazing — genuinely amazing.

Verified client, age 35-44Review shared after session 1 with Lawrence
September 18, 2025

We were going to Lawrence for couples therapy and the first two sessions were fine. I felt that my therapist leaned more towards agreeing with my partner than me. In addition, I felt he was too process oriented as if his process works for everyone and treated us like this was a one size fits all situation. I tried to voice my concerns and he was extremely invalidating. I told him that I don’t feel heard and recommended that we look for another therapist. Very invalidating therapist.

Verified client, age 25-34Review shared after session 6 with Lawrence
July 24, 2025

My work with you has been amazing and has had a life changing impact on my life.

Verified client, age 25-34Review shared after session 10 with Lawrence
Schedule 60 min