About Adam
Adam Hunt offers a straightforward, practical way to tackle overwhelming feelings. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and addictive patterns. Adam aims to make therapy useful right away, with clear steps people can use between sessions.
Adam is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - based in Wisconsin with 15 years of experience. He listens for the patterns that keep someone stuck, such as avoidance, people-pleasing, or self-criticism.
Background and approach
Then he works with the person to break those cycles and build concrete skills they can apply to daily life. His approach blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and solution-focused strategies, mixed with client-centered listening and mindfulness practices. Sessions tend to be practical and direct, while still attending to deeper experiences that matter to the person.
The goal is not endless therapy but real change people notice. Adam also supports people facing life transitions, caregiving stress, body image struggles, issues related to aging, and trauma or abuse recovery. He pays attention to how past abandonment, attachment difficulties, or co-occurring substance use can affect current coping.
Work typically looks like identifying unhelpful patterns, practicing new ways of responding, and tracking small wins. Adam will tailor tools to a person’s needs and preferences, helping them feel more grounded and capable over time.
How Adam Uses Practical Approaches Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting controlled by them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Solution-Focused Therapy centers on small, achievable steps and what is already working to build momentum toward goals.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Adam will discuss these methods and adapt them to a person’s goals and preferences. Decisions about which techniques to use are made collaboratively, so the plan fits the person’s life and what they want to change.
Online formats used include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation when that helps, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can support ongoing skills practice and brief check-ins between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English