Adele Duba-Nagel
Healing practical family and relationship strains
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Adele
Adele Duba-Nagel is an Illinois licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 12 years of experience. She focuses on family and relationship concerns, addictions, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Adele writes plainly and meets people where they are, helping them take small steps toward clearer goals and better daily routines.
She uses a person-centered way of working. Sessions are collaborative and built around what the client wants to address. Adele looks at the whole person - physical and mental health, history and core beliefs, and the environments that shape daily life.
Background and approach
She does not label people as problems; she treats difficulties as human challenges to work through together. In practice she helps clients identify strengths and make practical changes. That can mean improving communication, setting boundaries, addressing substance use, or rebuilding self-worth.
The work often includes talking through family patterns, past hurts, and how those influence present choices. Adele supports people dealing with codependency, control issues, guilt and shame, isolation, and life purpose questions. She also assists those wanting to stop smoking or vaping and people handling social anxiety or relationship jealousy.
The approach is steady and respectful, aimed at real-life changes. Therapy begins with the client’s goals and moves at a comfortable pace. Adele encourages curiosity about how old patterns formed and tries out new ways of relating.
The aim is clearer values, stronger connections, and more confidence in daily life.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Person-centered work focuses on the client's goals and experience. It involves listening closely, understanding a person's history and values, and shaping sessions around what matters most. This approach helps with relationship struggles, self-esteem, and family concerns by keeping the client's priorities central.Problem-focused techniques target specific behaviors and patterns such as substance use, communication habits, or smoking and vaping. These methods look at how daily choices and routines reinforce problems and then try small, concrete changes to shift those patterns. They are practical and aimed at noticeable changes in everyday life.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, and then adapt methods together. That collaborative planning means techniques can shift as progress is made or new issues arise.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to return to work or family life after a meeting. The range of formats also lets people choose what feels most comfortable for talking through sensitive family or addiction-related topics.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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