About Tressey
Tressey Adams is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of practice in Illinois. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety while building confidence to take next steps. Her style is practical and goal-focused, with short-term strategies and real-life skills people can use right away.
She uses a client-centered approach that starts with listening and understanding each person’s priorities. From there she adapts cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
Background and approach
Solution-focused methods help set small, achievable steps so progress feels tangible. Tressey has a background working across the greater metropolitan area and describes her role as a supportive partner in change. She emphasizes active participation and coaching so people leave sessions with tasks they can try between meetings.
The work is tailored to individual needs and paced to the person’s comfort. Common concerns she addresses include relationships, family problems, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, grief, intimacy-related issues, eating concerns, parenting strain, anger, and self-esteem. Additional areas of focus include communication problems, feelings of emptiness, forgiveness, life purpose, midlife transitions, compassion fatigue, and women’s issues.
Tressey aims to help people gain tools and confidence to manage life changes and daily stressors. She favors actionable steps over abstract talk and supports people as they test new ways of coping and relating.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Tressey uses client-centered therapy to begin by listening to what matters most to the person. This approach focuses on the client’s goals and preferences and helps guide practical steps based on their strengths.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and practice new responses for anxiety, depression, or stress-related problems.
Solution-focused therapy appears in short-term planning and goal setting. It helps break bigger issues into small, achievable tasks so progress is clear and motivating.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through options during the first sessions and adapt methods based on the person’s needs, goals, and what feels most useful. The plan can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversations and nonverbal cues. Phone calls use less bandwidth and can fit a quick check-in. Live chat and text allow shorter, more frequent contacts and help keep momentum between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or other life demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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