About Adam
Adam Whyte is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 30 years of clinical experience in California. He brings a calm, straightforward style to sessions and focuses on practical steps people can use to feel less overwhelmed. He has long experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and addiction.
Adam also supports people facing trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy concerns, sleep problems, parenting strain, and changes that come with illness or aging.
Background and approach
He uses everyday tools like mindfulness, journaling, and identifying sources of support. Adam’s approach blends several well-known methods to match what each person needs. He draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to name and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
He uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and coping with strong feelings. Attachment-based and emotionally focused ideas guide work on relationships and close connections. Clients can expect practical, skill-focused sessions that emphasize small, steady changes.
Adam values clear goals and active work between visits, including exercises and simple habits to try at home. He aims to help people build inner strengths and better day-to-day functioning. Adam’s background includes a Master of Social Work earned in 2001 and long-term clinical roles, including senior-level work at the VA.
He sees therapy as a collaborative process and helps people find approaches that fit their lives.
How Adam’s Approach Fits Online Therapy
Adam often combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which works well for anxiety, depression, and stress. DBT teaches concrete emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills to manage strong feelings and reduce impulsive reactions.He also uses attachment-based and emotionally focused ideas to look at relationship patterns and how they affect wellbeing. Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences with each person and adapt tools and pacing to fit their needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is helpful. Live chat and text messaging let people send quick updates, try short exercises, or keep momentum between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, care duties, or medical appointments while keeping consistent progress.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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