Adriana Cortes, LCSW

Adriana Cortes is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in New York with 13 years of professional experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, self-esteem struggles, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Adriana emphasizes that clients are the experts on their own stories and brings a supportive, empowering presence to sessions.

She centers her work on helping people notice existing strengths and use those strengths to face hard moments. Adriana talks with clients about concrete steps they can try between sessions. She encourages small experiments that build confidence and create forward movement.

Her background includes long-term work with people coping with grief, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and bipolar disorder. She has also supported those dealing with family and family-of-origin issues, attachment concerns, and blended family dynamics. Adriana pays attention to how life transitions and caregiving stress affect mood and daily functioning.

In session she listens for patterns around communication, codependency, and triggers that maintain problems. She works with eating- and sleeping-related difficulties, body image problems, and hoarding behaviors by breaking issues into manageable pieces. Adriana also supports people navigating adoption and foster care matters and aging or geriatric concerns.

Her style is collaborative and practical. She helps people set clear goals, try realistic changes, and track what helps. Adriana aims to empower each person to take steps toward a more fulfilling life.

Approaches that guide online work and making them fit

Adriana uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and coping skills. One approach emphasizes building on a person’s existing strengths and using small behavioral experiments to test new ways of coping. This helps when anxiety, low motivation, or mood make it hard to try different actions.

Another common focus is identifying patterns in relationships and communication that keep problems going. By noticing these patterns, a person can practice alternative responses and improve confidence in intimate or stressful interactions. These techniques often support work on jealousy-related worries and intimacy concerns.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Adriana collaborates with each person to match techniques to their goals, needs, and preferences. She helps clients try methods and adjust them based on what actually helps.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the current session options before booking. Adriana and other licensed professionals can make remote work fit into daily life by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins when needed, and making it easier to schedule sessions around work or caregiving. Discuss format and timing during the initial scheduling so sessions fit your routine.