Therapist profile
Adriana Cortes, LCSW
LCSW - Stress and family-related concerns
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- Stress and anxiety
- Addictions and coping
- Parenting support
About Adriana
Adriana Cortes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in New York with 13 years of experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and challenges with self-esteem. She also supports people navigating relationship and family concerns, parenting stress, grief, trauma, and intimacy-related issues.
Adriana approaches care with a focus on clients' strengths. She treats people as the experts in their own stories and helps them build on what is already working. Sessions focus on practical steps, clearer thinking, and small changes that add up over time.
Her work includes attention to life-stage concerns such as aging, adoption and foster care issues, and caregiver strain. She also addresses attachment and family-of-origin patterns, blended family questions, and communication problems that complicate home life.
When people bring struggles with eating, sleeping, anger, or feelings of emptiness and shame, Adriana looks for concrete coping strategies. She supports people dealing with bipolar disorder symptoms, hoarding tendencies, and issues connected to sexuality and LGBT identity without assuming a single path forward.
Sessions typically explore current difficulties, everyday routines, and practical adjustments that can reduce stress at home. Adriana encourages gradual change and clearer boundaries so people can better manage daily responsibilities and relationships.
How sessions work
Therapeutic approaches and working online
Adriana uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. Cognitive approaches look at unhelpful thinking patterns and teach strategies to interrupt them, which can help with anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. Skills-based work builds behavioral routines and coping tools for problems like addictions, sleep disruption, and anger management.She treats the choice of approach as collaborative. In early sessions she will ask about goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together the therapist and client adjust methods over time to find what feels most useful for managing home life and relationships.
Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm the available online options before booking. Many people find online sessions helpful because they reduce travel, allow tighter scheduling around work or family needs, and can make it easier to keep short check-ins when life is busy. If a quieter setting or a shorter phone check-in is more practical on some days, discuss those preferences when arranging sessions so timing fits everyday responsibilities.
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Experience
13+ years
Listed in
New York
Languages
English
Questions
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What kinds of issues does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, self-esteem, relationship and family concerns, parenting stress, grief, trauma, and intimacy-related issues.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
She focuses on clients' strengths and practical steps. Sessions aim for clearer thinking and small, manageable changes.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Adriana has 13 years of professional work experience in behavioral health settings.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, licensed in New York and practices from that location.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she see clients outside the United States?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are sessions arranged and what about formats?
Current session formats are not specified here; please confirm available session options before booking.
How are fees handled and how do I begin?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To get started, select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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