About Adriana
Adriana Cavazos is a licensed clinical social worker in Texas with 20 years of practice helping people through hard emotional moments. She focuses on straightforward, steady support for depression, anxiety, relationship struggles, and recovery after trauma. She listens for what matters to each person and helps name patterns that get in the way.
Conversations often center on communication problems, guilt and shame, isolation, and building self-love. Adriana also addresses concerns around grief, addictions, sleep and eating problems, and the stress that comes with work and life change.
Background and approach
Her style is practical and compassionate. She offers tools from well-known approaches like cognitive behavioral work and emotion-focused methods, along with skills for managing strong feelings. Sessions include checking what is working and changing course when needed.
Clients can expect help learning new coping strategies, practicing clearer communication, and rebuilding trust in themselves. She aims to make progress feel manageable rather than overwhelming. Adriana helps people set realistic goals and take small steps toward them.
Her practice also pays attention to issues such as forgiveness, loneliness, intimacy-related problems, and compassion fatigue. With a calm, patient manner she supports people in finding steadier footing and more satisfying daily life.
Approaches to Change in Online Sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values. It teaches simple skills to notice painful thoughts without letting those thoughts drive behavior, which can help with anxiety and depression.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers step-by-step changes to unhelpful thinking and practical techniques for managing mood, sleep, and worry.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they try methods, notice what helps, and adjust the plan so it fits the person's life and needs.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can provide brief check-ins or skill practice between sessions. These options let people use the format that best matches their day-to-day routines and comfort while working with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English