About Trudy
Trudy Adler is a licensed social worker in Michigan with 16 years of hands-on interpersonal experience. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, and major life changes. Her work also addresses compassion fatigue, relationship and family concerns, anger, depression, and coaching for motivation and confidence.
Her sessions are practical and focused on the person in front of her. She uses a strengths-based approach and leans on tools clients already have.
Background and approach
Conversations are tailored to each person’s needs and paced so they feel manageable. Trudy emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every meeting. She aims to help clients build confidence and healthy habits that fit their daily lives.
She also supports people facing aging or geriatric concerns, cancer and hospice-related stress, caregiving burdens, and eating or body-image issues. Clients can expect a collaborative plan rather than a one-size-fits-all script. Trudy works with people on forgiveness, self-love, hoarding concerns, and end-of-life questions when those topics arise.
Her background includes six years of research and administrative work in addition to clinical practice. She frames progress as small, steady steps and focuses on what people can do between sessions. The tone in sessions is encouraging and practical, aimed at helping people move toward clearer goals and a better day-to-day routine.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Trudy uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on building on strengths and teaching practical skills. A strengths-based approach helps identify what already works for a person and then expands those skills to manage anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Behavioral techniques involve identifying patterns of action and practicing small changes to reduce anxiety and improve daily routines.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with clients to choose techniques that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Together they adjust the plan over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper discussion, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging can provide ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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