About Adriana
Adriana Cortes helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and struggles with addictions. She also supports those coping with low self-esteem, relationship concerns, grief, and burnout like compassion fatigue. Adriana is a licensed clinical social worker with 13 years of experience and practices in New York.
Adriana believes people know their own stories. She focuses on what clients already do well and builds on those strengths. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
Background and approach
She aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable. In sessions she listens closely and helps clients name patterns that get in the way. Together they set small, achievable goals and try practical strategies between meetings.
Adriana works in straightforward language so people can apply ideas in daily life. She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address mood, anxiety, and coping with life changes. That practical focus helps with problems like sleep and eating concerns, intimacy issues, and parenting stress.
Adriana also brings experience supporting people dealing with attachment and family of origin issues. Adriana aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can take steps toward clearer thinking and healthier routines. She encourages realistic progress, not quick fixes, and partners with clients to adjust plans as needed.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Adriana uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns, then replace them with more helpful ways of thinking and acting; this is useful for anxiety and low mood. Another approach emphasizes building small, consistent habits and coping skills to manage cravings, sleep problems, or emotional overwhelm; it supports recovery from addictions and improves daily functioning.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. Adriana will talk with each person about their goals, challenges, and preferences, and together they decide which techniques to try first. She adjusts methods over time based on what is working and what needs to change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper work, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and skill practice convenient between sessions. These formats help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum toward their goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English