About Adena
Adena Broxton-Gelin is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and depression. She offers practical support for self-esteem issues and coping with life changes. Adena brings 13 years of professional experience and a straightforward, supportive style.
She believes each person knows their own story and has strengths to draw on. Sessions focus on building on those strengths and finding small, doable steps toward change. Adena emphasizes collaboration so clients set the pace and goals for their work together.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on evidence-based methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness skills to reduce worry and improve day-to-day coping. She also uses strategies from dialectical behavior therapy and solution-focused therapy to teach emotion regulation and problem-solving skills. Adena’s background includes work with people affected by trauma and abuse, first responder issues, and veteran and armed forces concerns.
She pays attention to attachment and communication patterns that affect relationships and daily functioning. This experience informs practical tools she offers in sessions. Clients meet by phone, video, live chat, or text messaging depending on what fits their schedule.
Adena aims to make therapy fit into busy lives by focusing on clear goals and measurable steps. She supports people as they try new behaviors and notice what helps them feel steadier.
Practical approaches for online anxiety care
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. It teaches specific skills for changing thinking patterns and behaviors that keep worry alive.Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, offers concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving distress tolerance. It can help people handle intense moments with breathing and grounding strategies and plan responses that match long-term goals.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Sessions are collaborative so techniques can be adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a face-to-face feel, while phone calls can fit into busy schedules or require less bandwidth. Live chat or messaging supports quick check-ins, brief goal-setting, and ongoing reminders between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into daily life and keep consistent progress.
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- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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