About
- Stress and anxiety
- Relationship strain
- Parenting challenges
About Adam
Adam Chaiken is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in New York with 30 years of professional experience. He focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship strain, family concerns, parenting strains, and depression. Adam also helps people facing communication problems, separation and divorce, grief and end-of-life issues, and difficulties like jealousy or isolation.
He keeps sessions straightforward and practical. Conversations center on what’s most pressing at home. He highlights strengths clients already have and helps them use those strengths to handle daily challenges. Sessions move at a steady, unhurried pace to reduce overwhelm.
Adam draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address patterns that cause pain. He helps people notice how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and practices new ways of handling conflicts. Practical tools and clear examples are used so people can try different approaches between sessions.
When parenting is wearing someone down, Adam focuses on specific moments that are causing stress. He helps with clearer communication, setting realistic expectations, and problem solving around routines or caregiving demands. For relationship concerns he looks at interaction patterns and offers concrete ways to change them.
He works in English and sees clients from New York. Prospective clients are asked to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule an initial session to begin. The first conversations establish goals and the practical steps that follow.
How sessions work
How evidence-based techniques translate to remote sessions
Adam uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people change unhelpful patterns. Cognitive approaches focus on identifying thoughts that make anxiety or depression worse and replacing them with more helpful thinking. Behavioral strategies involve trying small, practical actions between sessions to reduce avoidance and build confidence.He also works with communication-focused methods that look at the ways people interact at home. These methods break down difficult conversations into specific skills, like clearer requests and calmer responses, and are useful for parenting stresses and relationship strain.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to weigh goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust them as progress is made.
The biography does not specify session formats, so confirm what is currently offered before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, reduce travel time, and allow brief check-ins when needed. They also let people practice communication skills in the places where family life happens, which can make new behaviors easier to test and keep working on.
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Experience
30+ years
Listed in
New York
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of family or parenting issues are addressed?
He works with stress around parenting, family conflict, communication problems, divorce and separation, and related concerns like isolation and jealousy.
How would you describe his therapeutic style?
He uses plain, practical conversations that focus on strengths and small changes. The pace is steady and oriented toward problem solving.
How much experience does he bring?
He has 30 years of professional experience as a clinical social worker in New York.
What are his credentials and location?
He is an LCSW licensed in New York and practices from New York.
Can non-US residents work with him?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are offered?
The original biography does not list specific session formats. Please confirm current session options before booking.
How are costs handled?
Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with him?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.