About Adriana
Adriana Cortes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in New York. She helps people manage stress and anxiety, cope with addictions, and build self-esteem. She also supports those facing depression, compassion fatigue, grief, and life transitions.
Adriana emphasizes a collaborative pace and practical steps clients can use between sessions. Clients can expect clear conversation and straightforward tools. Adriana frames clients as experts in their own lives and focuses on strengths already present.
Background and approach
She offers guidance that aims to make daily routines and relationships feel more manageable. Over 13 years she has worked with a range of concerns including relationship problems, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping challenges, and caregiver stress. She also brings attention to family of origin issues, attachment concerns, and body image struggles.
Her background includes helping people navigate adoption and foster care related matters as well as aging and geriatric issues. Adriana uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person's goals. Sessions are practical and grounded, with an emphasis on small, achievable changes that add up over time.
She encourages clients to try approaches in between meetings and to adjust the work as needed. Conversations are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Adriana works with people who want support making concrete shifts in coping, behavior, and relationships.
Evidence-Based Care and Flexible Online Sessions
Adriana uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and real-life results. One approach she relies on teaches coping strategies for anxiety and stress, helping people identify triggers and practice short exercises to reduce immediate distress. Another common focus is building self-esteem and motivation through behavioral change - small goal-setting and routine shifts that improve confidence and daily functioning.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Adriana works with each person to match techniques to their goals, preferences, and what feels manageable. She adjusts plans over time based on what helps most, inviting feedback and trying different methods when needed.
Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules. Video calls suit longer conversations and visual connection, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief problem-solving, or when someone wants written notes they can revisit. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and other responsibilities.
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- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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