About Kerry
Kerry Adamek is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with ten years of experience. He focuses on stress and anxiety as well as addiction and mood concerns. Kerry emphasizes each person's strengths and believes clients know their own stories best.
He encourages the small steps that lead toward clearer days. Kerry uses straightforward conversations to help people handle pressing problems. He listens closely and helps clients set practical goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often include looking at patterns in thinking and behavior and trying out new skills between meetings. His work addresses a wide range of concerns, from depression and bipolar symptoms to family-related struggles and substance use. He also supports people dealing with guilt, impulsivity, and questions about life purpose.
Kerry can talk with clients about blended family challenges, divorce and separation, and issues tied to fatherhood. Therapy can include short-term, goal-focused plans or longer work depending on what the person wants. Kerry draws on tools from acceptance and commitment approaches, cognitive behavioral methods, and solution-focused strategies.
Motivational interviewing ideas also guide conversations about change when addictions are involved. Kerry aims to build a respectful working relationship where clients set the pace. He helps people break down big problems into small steps they can try between sessions.
The focus is on practical progress and on leveraging strengths that are already present.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then focus on actions that match personal values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and decisions about life direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change patterns that worsen symptoms. It is often used for anxiety and depression. Client-Centered Therapy centers the client's viewpoint and supports self-directed growth through empathetic listening and reflection; this approach helps people feel heard while they sort out next steps.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Kerry will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. That means adjusting focus over time and trying different techniques until something fits.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone appointments, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more depth is needed. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging work well for quick check-ins, tracking short-term goals, or when writing helps organize thoughts. These options let people access licensed professionals from different locations and fit sessions into busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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