About Adele
Adele Barnes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in South Carolina who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She also supports those dealing with depression, grief, addictions, and life changes. Adele offers a calm, practical approach that aims to reduce overwhelm and build coping skills.
She holds a Master of Arts in Counseling from Webster University. Adele has five years of clinical experience working in several therapy settings. Her work is focused on short-term tools and steady skill-building to ease daily struggles.
Background and approach
In sessions she uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and mindfulness techniques. She breaks problems into manageable steps and helps people try new ways of thinking and acting. Conversations are direct, with simple exercises to practice between meetings.
Adele pays attention to how anxiety shows up in day-to-day life, including social anxiety, feelings of emptiness, and difficulty with focus or motivation. She also addresses relationship stress, parenting concerns, anger, and career pressures. The aim is to help people regain a sense of control and purpose.
A typical meeting includes checking current problems, practicing a tool or strategy, and setting a small homework task. Progress is tracked in short, achievable goals. Adele emphasizes respect, nonjudgmental listening, and clear steps forward.
How approaches like CBT and mindfulness work online
Adele uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that keep anxiety and low mood going. CBT sessions often include specific exercises and short tasks to try between meetings to test new ways of thinking.She also draws on Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple awareness and breathing practices. Mindfulness helps reduce reactivity to stress and can be useful for social anxiety, feeling empty, or managing strong emotions.
Solution-Focused Therapy is part of her work too, focusing on small, practical steps that move someone toward clearer goals. These brief, action-oriented conversations can quickly produce manageable changes in daily life.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Adele works collaboratively to choose methods that match a person's needs, goals, and preferences. She reviews progress and adjusts the plan as therapy moves forward.
Online therapy offers flexibility for those balancing work, school, or caregiving. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual communication. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter, on-the-go check-ins and written reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit consistent therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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