Adriana CortesLCSW

Adriana Cortes is a licensed clinical social worker with 13 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and challenges with addiction. She focuses on building motivation, improving self-esteem, and strengthening confidence. Adriana aims to create a supportive space where people can take the first steps toward change and greater well-being.

Adriana believes each person knows their story best and brings strengths that can guide recovery. She emphasizes practical steps and steady support rather than quick fixes. Sessions are collaborative, with attention to what the individual wants to change and how to get there.

Her background includes long-term clinical work in New York and steady practice supporting people through life transitions. That experience has informed a straightforward style that balances listening with goal-focused planning. Clients can expect clear options and manageable steps between sessions.

Adriana also works with concerns around relationships, grief, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, intimacy-related issues, and parenting stress. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, body image, and family of origin issues. She brings experience helping people cope with anger, sleeping and eating difficulties, and bipolar mood concerns.

Her approach centers on empowering clients to use their strengths while testing new behaviors in everyday life. Adriana helps people identify small changes that lead to better functioning and more satisfying relationships. She encourages open conversation about goals and adjustments as progress unfolds.

Approaches that guide online work and your care

Adriana uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and coping skills. One common approach emphasizes building skills to manage anxiety and stress through step-by-step practice and problem solving. This helps people reduce overwhelm and handle daily demands more effectively.

Another frequently used approach centers on boosting motivation and self-esteem by identifying strengths and trying new behaviors. It focuses on small experiments that test different ways of responding to problematic situations and then expanding what works.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. Adriana collaborates with each person to find methods that fit their goals and preferences. Together they review what is helping and adjust the plan as needed so the work matches real life needs.

Session formats are not specified in the original biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, shorten check-ins when time is limited, avoid travel time, and allow consistent contact during life transitions. Licensed professionals can tailor session length and pacing to match your routine and goals.