Counseling Style
Adam has over twenty years of experience working as a therapist in community mental health settings. A graduate of Princeton University, Adam earned his Master’s Degree in Social Welfare from the University of California, Los Angeles. Previously Adam worked with children, teens, and families at San Mateo County Mental Health in California. Adam spent ten years at Kaiser Permanente Department of Psychiatry in the San Francisco Bay Area. There he worked as an individual and group therapist with adults, including Spanish-speaking clients.
Experience
By incorporating a strengths-based approach, Adam seeks to empower clients to develop greater insight and cultivate positive coping skills. Adam is collaborative and believes in creating a safe environment for clients. Areas of interest include cognitive approaches to depression and anxiety. At times Adam draws on concepts from Dialectical Behavior Therapy to support clients.
Specialties
- Academic/Occupational/Work Issues/Career
- Trauma
- Anxiety/Panic/Phobias
- Bipolar Disorder
- Depression
- Personality Disorders
- Substance Related/Addictive Disorders
- Grief/Loss/Bereavement
- Health/Medical Problems
- Self-Injurious Behaviors/Self-harm
- LGBTQIA
- Peak Performance/Performance Anxiety
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- PTSD/Acute Stress
Clinical Modalities + Treatments
- Mindfulness/Meditation
- Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic/ Psychoanalysis
- Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
- Attachment Based Family Therapy (ABFT)
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)