About Tressey
Tressey Adams centers her work on clients who want practical tools and confidence to create lasting change.
Background and approach
She invites people to take an active role in shaping their goals, helping them identify and apply the strengths they already possess to reduce stress, navigate relationship and family challenges, and address issues such as anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, grief, and intimacy concerns.
Using a strengths-based, collaborative stance, she combines client-centered support with cognitive and solution-focused methods to help clients develop clearer thinking patterns, set achievable steps, and build everyday habits that reinforce progress. Her practice also attends to concerns like communication problems, self-esteem, coping with life transitions, and women's issues, tailoring treatment to each person's circumstances.
In clinical practice for 15 years, Adams practices in Illinois as an LCSW - a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - and draws on experience working with individuals, families, and couples in the greater metropolitan area.
She frames therapy as a partnership that promotes practical action plans and sustainable change, coaching clients toward healthier routines and greater confidence in their ability to manage difficult situations.
Approaches That Guide Online Work and Practical Support
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and building a trusting relationship where the client's perspective shapes each session. This approach helps people feel heard and supported while they explore values, identify strengths, and decide on meaningful goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and behavior that contribute to distress and teaching concrete strategies to change those patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns. Solution-focused therapy concentrates on small, achievable steps and leverages existing strengths to create momentum toward specific outcomes, which can be especially helpful for clients seeking practical short-term progress.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the therapeutic process, and the therapist works collaboratively with clients to determine which approaches fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they review what feels most helpful and adapt strategies over time to support sustainable change.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit support into a busy life and maintain continuity between sessions. These options allow clients to choose the communication style that best suits their schedule and comfort, while the therapist provides coaching, skill-building, and structured tools to apply between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English