About Adele
Adele Duba-Nagel is an Illinois licensed clinical social worker with 12 years of experience helping people facing addictions, relationship strain, family conflict, low self-esteem, and major life changes. She works with individuals who struggle with codependency, communication problems, control issues, and substance use concerns. Adele writes plainly and meets people where they are without judgment.
She takes a person-centered approach that centers on the client's goals. Sessions focus on the whole person - mental and physical health, life history, daily routines, and what brings meaning.
Background and approach
Therapy is collaborative; the client and therapist set the pace and priorities together. Adele helps clients identify strengths and practical steps they can use outside sessions. She pays attention to family of origin issues, patterns of dependency, and habits like smoking or vaping that people want to change.
Work often includes exploring guilt, shame, forgiveness, and rebuilding self-worth. Her style is down-to-earth and supportive. She avoids labeling people and instead talks about the challenges they face.
The aim is steady progress through skill-building and clearer communication. Clients can expect a mix of problem-solving and reflection. Adele supports changes in relationships and daily life while helping people find a stronger sense of purpose and self-love.
She brings a calm, steady presence to the work and focuses on practical steps that fit each person's life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change. One common approach is person-centered work, which centers sessions on the client's goals, values, and experiences and helps people make choices that fit their lives. Another typical technique emphasizes skill-building around communication and coping - teaching small, repeatable strategies to handle cravings, anxiety, or conflict. These methods tend to suit issues like addiction, family patterns, and low self-esteem because they combine understanding with action.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and try different ways of working until a good fit appears. This is a collaborative process where the client helps shape which techniques are tried and when to shift focus.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let the therapist and client talk face-to-face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to share updates and get brief support between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, family life, and changing schedules while keeping treatment consistent and accessible.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English