Trudy Adler
Practical support for stress and life changes
- Credentials
- LMSW
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Trudy
Trudy Adler is a licensed social worker who focuses on stress, anxiety, grief, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. She offers practical coaching for motivation, healthy lifestyle habits, and building confidence. Her tone is respectful and supportive, aimed at people who want straightforward help for everyday struggles.
She brings 16 years of hands-on interpersonal practice plus six years of research and administrative experience. That mix gives her both practical tools and an understanding of how services fit together.
Background and approach
She uses a strengths-based mindset and relies on tools clients can use right away. Sessions are tailored to each person. Trudy listens first, then shapes the conversation and plan to fit individual needs.
She emphasizes sensitivity and compassion in every interaction. Her work includes helping people through grief and loss, caregiver stress, aging and geriatric concerns, cancer-related issues, and end-of-life topics. She also supports those facing body image, eating and food-related issues, hoarding, and forgiveness work.
Trudy practices in Michigan as an LMSW - Licensed Master Social Worker. She offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging, and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Trudy commonly uses evidence-based techniques that focus on building strengths and practical skills. One approach centers on skill-building for stress and anxiety - teaching breathing, planning, and daily routines to reduce overwhelm and increase control. Another approach focuses on grief and life transitions, helping people name what they’ve lost and find ways to carry on that feel meaningful. These methods aim to offer clear steps and small practices people can use between sessions.Finding the right way to work together is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose approaches that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That partnership guides how sessions are structured and which tools are introduced over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, follow up quickly when issues arise, and use brief check-ins alongside longer meetings. For many people, remote sessions provide a practical path to steady progress without major schedule changes.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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