About Adrienne
Dr. Adrienne Whitt is a licensed clinical social worker in Kentucky with 25 years of experience. She helps individuals and couples who are facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and family conflicts.
Many people come to her when life feels overwhelming or when compassion fatigue and burnout make daily life harder. She aims to make sessions straightforward and practical. Clients talk through problems and spot patterns that keep them stuck.
Sessions often focus on clearer communication, coping skills for anxiety, and managing the after-effects of trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
Her approach blends psychodynamic ideas, cognitive behavioral methods, and trauma-informed care to match each person’s needs. That means she pays attention to past relationships and current thinking patterns while staying mindful of trauma’s impact. The goal is to use what helps most for each issue rather than follow one fixed method.
Dr. Whitt also works with people dealing with adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, caregiver stress, and postpartum depression. She addresses practical family problems like divorce, infidelity, and parenting strains with direct strategies and empathy.
Sessions are conversational and focused on real-life changes. She encourages steps that fit a person’s day-to-day life. For many, the work brings clearer boundaries, better communication, and fewer overwhelming reactions.
Evidence-informed approaches for online care
Dr. Whitt uses psychodynamic ideas to help people see how past relationships affect current patterns. This approach can help when repeated relationship problems or family of origin issues keep coming up.She also uses cognitive behavioral methods to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. This is useful for anxiety, stress, and communication problems because it focuses on practical changes day to day.
Trauma-informed care is part of her practice, which means attention to how trauma and abuse shape reactions and relationships. That helps when symptoms stem from past hurt rather than only current stressors.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which ideas to try and adjust them over time based on what feels helpful.
Online sessions offer flexibility and easier access to consistent care. Video calls let people see nonverbal cues and work in real time. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter, frequent check-ins and support between scheduled sessions. These formats help fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Infidelity
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English