About Adriana
Adriana Lara is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, parenting strain, and ADHD. She welcomes LGBT clients and those coping with trauma, addiction, anger, career changes, and family conflict. Adriana writes plainly and listens closely to understand each person's situation before suggesting a path forward.
She has worked in counseling for 12 years and holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Vermont.
Background and approach
Early in her training she supported teens and young adults dealing with substance use and mental health challenges, which shaped her interest in practical skills for daily life. Her experience spans rural and urban settings and different age groups. Adriana uses an eclectic style with an emphasis on building trust first.
She focuses on helping people notice how their thoughts affect feelings and behavior, then tries different tools that match each person's needs. Sessions aim to be collaborative and down-to-earth rather than full of jargon. In sessions she draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and solution-focused strategies to set short-term goals.
Motivational interviewing is used when people want to change habits related to addiction or difficult routines. The overall goal is to create small, doable steps that fit a person's life. She values diversity in identity and life experience and tries to understand each person as a whole.
Adriana meets people where they are and focuses on practical changes that reduce daily distress and increase coping skills.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience without judgment. Online, this means the therapist spends time building rapport and reflecting what the person says so they feel heard and seen. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and practice new ways of thinking and behaving; it works well over video or phone when the therapist and client review real-life examples and set homework or small experiments.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide whether to use CBT techniques, motivational interviewing to support change, or a solution-focused plan to tackle a specific problem in a few steps.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and practicing skills, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, live chat and text messaging work well for short check-ins or when typing feels easier. These formats make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life while still focusing on practical change.
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- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts, New York
- Languages
- English
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