About Adriana
Adriana Lara is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and life changes. She also supports those dealing with addiction, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, anger, career concerns, and ADHD. She speaks English and practices from Massachusetts.
Adriana uses a direct, down-to-earth style. She focuses first on building trust so people feel safe to talk. Sessions are collaborative and practical, with steps you can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Her aim is to make therapy feel useful and manageable for busy lives. She holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Vermont, earned in 2014, and has about 12 years of experience in counseling. Early in her training she worked with teens and young adults facing substance use and mental health struggles.
Over the years she has worked in both rural and urban settings and with people presenting anxiety, depression, trauma, and stress. Adriana blends approaches rather than relying on a single method. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, client-centered work, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques are common tools in her sessions.
She pays attention to each person’s background and how life experiences shape current struggles. In practical terms Adriana helps clients spot unhelpful thought patterns, set small achievable goals, and find motivation to change. She aims to make sessions straightforward so people can take steps toward relief between meetings.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding your experience. The therapist follows your lead, reflects what she hears, and helps you name what matters so you can feel more understood and make clearer choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and actions. It helps people identify negative thinking, test those thoughts, and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, or stress symptoms.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Adriana will talk with you about your goals and preferences and try methods that fit your situation. She treats therapy as a collaboration where you both check whether an approach is helping and adjust it as needed.
Online sessions let you connect from different places and at flexible times. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions are good when bandwidth or being on camera is difficult, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging works for quick questions or between-session support. These options can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week and keep momentum between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
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Also works with
- 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