Adewale (Wale) Adegbenle
Practical, steady support for families
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Adewale
Adewale (Wale) Adegbenle greets parents and family members who are worried about stress, behavior changes, grief, or substance concerns. He keeps sessions straightforward and practical, listening first and helping families set short-term goals. Wale emphasizes a respectful, calm approach that aims to make next steps feel manageable.
He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW who has practiced for 20 years in New York. He has worked with people facing addiction, trauma, depression, anxiety, stress, and parenting challenges.
Background and approach
He also addresses issues such as caregiver strain, chronic illness, and problems rooted in family of origin. Wale draws on familiar methods like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing to help people change unhelpful thoughts and build workable habits. He also uses Client-Centered and Solution-Focused techniques to keep sessions grounded in what matters most to each family.
The result is a mix of listening, practical skill-building, and step-by-step planning. He describes his style as compassionate and relationship-centered, aiming to reduce shame and find realistic strategies. Sessions focus on clear goals, small experiments, and honest conversations about what is and isn’t working.
Parents often leave with specific tools to try between meetings. Wale practices in New York and offers care in English. His background and approach aim to support families facing life changes, parenting stress, grief, or addiction concerns without jargon or overwhelm.
Therapy approaches that fit into family life
Client-Centered Therapy is about listening and shaping care around what matters most to each person. It helps people feel heard and guides decisions based on their values and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to identify goals, try methods that suit the family’s needs, and adjust as progress is made. Together they decide which techniques to keep and which to change based on what helps in day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy schedules. These options make it easier to meet from home, coordinate around caregiving, and maintain continuity during life transitions. The different formats allow for flexible check-ins, focused skill practice, or longer therapeutic conversations depending on what the family needs.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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