Adam Turkel, LCSW-R

Adam Turkel is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW-R) based in New York who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and midlife transitions. He brings 22 years of experience drawn from work in a large community hospital and community settings. Adam commonly supports people dealing with sleep problems, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strains, and career or financial stress.

He uses straightforward, person-centered work to understand what matters to each person. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps. Adam blends client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral tools and mindfulness exercises to reduce symptoms and improve daily coping.

Adam also draws on motivational interviewing to help people make concrete changes, and psychodynamic ideas to look at recurring patterns that affect relationships and mood. He has experience supporting people with bipolar disorder, mood disorders, panic attacks, and substance-related challenges.

His approach is flexible in length and intensity - he offers both short-term, goal-focused work and longer-term therapy depending on need. He aims to quickly identify priorities and recommend a course of action that fits each person's life.

People who come to Adam often want practical guidance for life changes, help repairing communication, or support working through grief and loss. He frames therapy as a collaborative process that emphasizes small, achievable steps toward better daily functioning and clearer life direction.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and following what the person finds most important. In practice this means sessions center on the client's goals and the clinician reflects back concerns and options so decisions come from the client.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It uses straightforward exercises and small experiments to test new ways of thinking and behaving, which can help with anxiety, depression, panic, and sleep issues.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to try strategies and adjust the plan based on what helps. Clients and the therapist decide together which methods fit their needs and daily routines.

Confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not specified in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It can also let people use mindfulness practices and CBT exercises between meetings to reinforce progress.