About Adam
Adam Hewitt is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of experience who blends practical therapy with a straightforward, compassionate style. He works from Missouri and offers online support for a wide range of concerns. He keeps sessions friendly and direct and focuses on building on each person's existing strengths.
He uses mindfulness-infused approaches to help people manage anxiety, stress, addiction, and mood concerns. He also supports people processing trauma, grief, intimacy-related issues, and relationship or communication struggles.
Background and approach
His work often addresses how technology and cultural pressures affect daily life. In sessions he helps clients identify personal values and small, actionable steps. That might mean practicing strategies to reduce anxiety, changing habits around substance or gaming use, or trying new ways to speak up in a relationship.
He aims to guide people toward feeling more in charge of their choices. Adam describes his style as open and nonjudgmental. He encourages people to take the lead on what they want to work on and to move at a pace that feels right.
He emphasizes practical tools and steady progress rather than quick fixes. Before joining online practice, he spent several years in independent practice and worked as a substance abuse counselor. Those experiences inform his approach to addictions and co-occurring concerns.
He welcomes international clients and conducts sessions in English.
How ACT and CBT Translate to Online Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. Online sessions can use ACT exercises to reduce avoidance and to practice value-driven steps between meetings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors. In video or phone sessions, CBT work often includes brief skill practice, thought records, and homework that people can complete between contacts to build momentum.
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and following the client's lead. That approach is easy to carry over to online formats where the therapist reflects concerns and helps clients clarify what matters most to them.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and life context to decide which methods to emphasize. Adjustments are made over time based on what is helping and what feels useful.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit brief check-ins into a busy day or to follow up after a session. These options help people access consistent care while balancing work, family, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Kansas, Massachusetts, Nevada, Arizona, Washington, California
- Languages
- English
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