Adenia Perez, LCSW

Adenia Perez is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with eleven years of experience supporting people through life changes and emotional challenges. She holds a BA in Social Work from Lehman College (2010) and an MSW from Hunter College (2012). Adenia has worked across nonprofit organizations, schools, and community settings, offering care to both adults and children who are coping with depression, anxiety, trauma, abuse, and other major transitions.

Adenia brings focused experience addressing low self-esteem, negative self-talk, obsessive thoughts, mood instability, identity development, and post-traumatic stress. Her practice also includes work with LGBT clients and those navigating parenting, career shifts, grief, stress, anger, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and relationship or workplace concerns. She is bilingual in English and Spanish and accepts international clients in addition to local work in Arizona and North Carolina.

She has pursued specialized training in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), behavior modification, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) principles, narrative therapy, strengths-based approaches, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused methods. Adenia approaches therapy with respect for each person as the expert of their own story, building on existing strengths to identify goals and practical steps forward. She aims to make the therapy experience genuine, positive, and collaborative, supporting clients as they take the often courageous first steps toward change.