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Chelsea Adams

Chelsea Adams

(she/her)

LPC
6 years of experience
Empowering
Warm
Authentic
Virtual

Hi! My name is Chelsea. I am a licensed therapist in Pennsylvania. I provide short-term and long-term virtual individual therapy for adolescents and adults. I have been privileged to work with clients in crisis, at the intensive outpatient level, in schools, in outpatient community mental health, and in group practice. You may be seeking therapy because your inner pain has spilled out onto your relationships, work, family, physical health, or creative endeavors, and you’re struggling to bear it on your own. Maybe you are generally well-functioning, but you have long held a sense of disconnection from life. Perhaps you are facing a significant life transition, you are grieving a loved one, or you have been unable to move on from traumatic events or periods of life. Your distress may be manifesting as anxiety, excessive worry, hypervigilance, depressed or unstable mood, irritability, numbness, hopelessness, fatigue, or suicidal thoughts. While mental health symptom relief and learning practical coping skills may be a good portion of what you need in treatment, healing does not have to stop there. Therapy can be a place to (re)discover your true self, to become unburdened from the weight of the past, to help you live a meaningful life where you have agency, or to build your psychological health.

What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?

My goal in our first session is to orient towards your feelings, thoughts, fears, hopes, and goals that bring you to therapy. I do this through asking questions that will help me meet you on your own terms, listening and attending to you, and understanding what you are motivated to reach for.

Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.

My strength is shown to the degree I express a nonjudgmental, patient, and authentic stance towards clients. I value providing a safe and warm relational experience and creating the space for you as you are within that warmth. And I am always concerned with helping you direct your own life by helping you see and own the power you have. I take our work seriously, so I do my best to continually evolve my professional knowledge and skills, to walk the path of continual growth in my own life, and to depend on my own people in order to be a good enough therapist for you. I am grateful to be here for you.

About Chelsea Adams

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Virtual

My treatment methods

Psychodynamic

Practicing psychodynamically means that I pay particular attention to emotional expression, avoided thoughts and feelings, recurring themes and patterns, the way your past touches upon your present life, wishes and desires, and our relationship. These emphases are built on the assumption that acknowledging and feeling the full range of your emotions and thoughts, working through the ways your past touches upon your present, and examining the range of your imaginative life and how this interacts with reality all within the context of a safe and healing relationship leads to greater emotional and psychological health.

Humanistic

Having a humanistic and person-centered orientation means that I aim to frame our work together around your will, your choices, your agency, your values, and your strength. While I am an active participant in the therapeutic process with you and can provide suggestions as needed, I strive to allow you to have your own process of psychological and emotional direction and growth.

Somatic

I integrate principles from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and Somatic Experiencing Psychotherapy to help support your connection with your feelings and to facilitate change in your emotional states through the resources of the body.

Mindfulness-Based Therapy

Mindfulness, the nonjudgmental observation of our thoughts, feelings, and impulses, is a quality I try to cultivate in the therapeutic environment to better understand and explore your inner world. Mindfulness is also an internal quality I aim to help you develop outside the therapy room as well.

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

I use Internal Family Systems to offer you a way to work with disavowed or difficult parts of yourself. Rather than fighting with parts of yourself that are stubborn and just won’t go away, we can learn how to be present with them, offer them understanding, care, and more safety.