About Adewale
Adewale (Wale) Adegbenle welcomes people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to turn. He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York with twenty years of experience helping individuals face addiction, trauma, depression, anxiety, and relationship strain. Wale writes plainly and listens closely to help people set realistic goals and take small steps forward.
Wale uses a relationship-focused style that centers on the person in front of him.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal oriented. He draws on techniques from cognitive behavioral work and motivational interviewing to help people change unhelpful thinking and find motivation for action. He also brings mindfulness practices into sessions to help reduce stress and build awareness.
These are offered as simple exercises and coping tools that can be used between meetings. The work aims to be practical and usable in daily life. Wale has focused on health and substance use concerns alongside a broad range of issues such as grief, parenting stress, career pressure, and compassion fatigue.
He also supports those dealing with chronic illness, caregiving burden, blended family challenges, and first responder stress. He provides therapy in English and accepts international clients by remote formats. People often begin by naming one or two priorities and then shaping short-term steps toward those goals.
Wale seeks to make each session feel manageable and productive.
How Wale’s Approaches Work Online
Wale draws on client-centered therapy to make sessions about the person’s priorities, listening first and helping shape goals from there. This approach suits people who need a steady, respectful space to talk through problems and decide what matters most.He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying practical experiments to change feelings and behavior. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress when people want clear steps to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Wale will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest methods that fit their situation. He adapts techniques over time so the work stays useful and aligned with what the client needs.
Online sessions offer flexibility in how people connect. Video calls let conversations feel more like in-person meetings, phone sessions can work when video is difficult, and live chat or text messaging can be helpful for brief check-ins or ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, handle short work breaks, or use lower-bandwidth connections.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English