About Adrianna
Adrianna Restiano is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who practices in New York. She brings five years of post-licensure experience and a calm, listening approach to work with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship or parenting concerns. She combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered methods to match practical tools with a person's goals.
Sessions focus on clear steps and real-life skills that can be used between meetings.
Background and approach
Adrianna aims to help people notice what matters to them and take small actions toward it. Her background includes helping people cope with trauma, caregiving stress, compassion fatigue, and mood concerns such as bipolar disorder and seasonal affective disorder. She also addresses issues like body image, codependency, communication problems, and intimacy-related struggles.
In practice she balances listening with goal-oriented work tailored to each person's situation. Adrianna uses plain language and steady support so people can feel understood. She helps clients make changes gradually, with tools they can try at home.
Conversations often involve exploring values, testing new behaviors, and building routines that reduce overwhelm. Therapy with Adrianna includes a mix of talking, skill-building, and problem-solving. She encourages people to set small, achievable goals and checks progress together.
The aim is to help people regain a sense of agency and move toward a life that fits their priorities.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Adrianna often draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy when working with people online. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on clarifying values and taking action toward them, even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. It can help with anxiety, low mood, and life transitions by steering attention to what matters most.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thought patterns and test new behaviors. It provides concrete exercises and homework to reduce symptoms of anxiety, panic, and depression and to improve problem solving and routines.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Adrianna collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily life. She will check in often and adjust strategies based on what is working and what is not, so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or ongoing reminders between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English