About Tressey
Tressey Adams helps people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or uncertain about next steps. She focuses on practical skills and clear action so clients can make steady progress. Tressey keeps sessions direct and hopeful, helping people build confidence in their own choices.
She uses straightforward methods to help with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family problems, grief, addiction concerns, and issues around intimacy and eating. Her practice also addresses parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and midlife questions.
How Tressey works
Tressey attends to communication problems, feelings of emptiness, forgiveness, and questions about life purpose and women's issues. Tressey has been practicing for 15 years and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW in Illinois.
Her background includes work with adults and families in the greater metropolitan area. In sessions she blends Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy. That mix helps people notice what works, try small experiments, and change unhelpful thinking.
Treatment is shaped to match each person’s specific needs and goals. Tressey emphasizes collaboration and practical steps over lengthy theory. She aims to coach clients toward sustainable change through repeated practice and short-term goals.
The goal is clearer decisions, better communication, and more confidence in daily life.
Tressey lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Tressey works with
The areas below are the ones Tressey selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
How Tressey Uses Practical Approaches Online
Client-Centered Therapy puts the client’s perspective first and helps people speak about what matters most. This approach encourages the therapist to listen, reflect, and follow the client’s lead so goals come from the person’s own priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test them with small experiments. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and behaviors that people want to change because it combines thinking work with practical tasks.
Solution-Focused Therapy targets quick, realistic steps and looks for what already works. It helps people set short-term goals and try specific actions to move forward without getting stuck in long problem analysis.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tressey will discuss these methods with each person and decide together which fit best based on goals and preferences. The process is collaborative and can shift as needs change.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone calls can fit a break in the day, and chat or text can support quick check-ins or brief coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and keep momentum between sessions.
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