About Adekunle
Adekunle "Ade" Ojelade is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 30 years of experience. He helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and depression. He focuses on building hope and resilience so people can move through hard times.
Ade offers straightforward, practical support and listens carefully to what each person says. He uses a mix of approaches to match what a person needs. That can include client-centered conversation to understand what matters most, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, and mindfulness skills to ease overwhelming feelings.
Background and approach
He also uses EMDR for people with trauma and DBT skills for strong emotions and relationship strain. Ade has worked in both Europe and the United States and brings three decades of hands-on experience. He draws on his background in social work to help people navigate life changes, illness, caregiving stress, and recovery from substance concerns.
Sessions are focused on clear goals and practical steps. He helps people with specific issues like abandonment or attachment worries, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, codependency, and communication problems. He also supports coping after separation, dissociation, and other forms of loss.
Language of sessions is English and he offers remote options for people outside Florida. The first meetings concentrate on understanding immediate needs and making a simple plan to start feeling better.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Ade often blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help people manage anxiety, stress, and the fallout of trauma. Client-centered work means the conversation centers on what matters most to the person and builds plans from their goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and teaches practical strategies to change them. Mindfulness therapy offers simple breathing and awareness practices that reduce reactivity and increase calm.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Ade will discuss goals and preferences with each person and suggest which methods to try together. That collaborative planning helps match techniques to the issue, whether it's addiction recovery, trauma processing, or coping with chronic illness.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face talk when that helps, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quicker check-ins, and text messaging works for short updates or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity across locations.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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