About Adam
Adam Dollen is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 24 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD. He offers a calm, straightforward approach so you can talk about what’s hard and try practical steps that fit your life. He creates a supportive, non-judgmental space where people can make sense of overwhelming thoughts and strong emotions.
Sessions focus on clear goals and simple tools that can be used between meetings.
Background and approach
That might mean learning ways to notice thoughts, shifting daily routines, or practicing short mindfulness exercises. Adam draws on client-centered work to keep sessions grounded in each person’s needs. He also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and solution-focused methods to set achievable steps forward.
Emotionally-focused ideas help when relationships and connection feel strained. Over two decades of practice have included helping people navigate addiction, trauma and abuse, parenting stress, anger, self-esteem, and relational problems. He also addresses concerns like abandonment, attachment issues, blended family strain, and impulsivity in clear, manageable ways.
Sessions can include talk, skill-building, and short between-session tasks that encourage steady progress. Adam works in Iowa and conducts sessions in English. If you want to explore whether he might be a fit, the profile explains how to start the process.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Adam blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral tools to make online sessions feel focused and useful. Client-centered therapy means the conversation centers on what matters most to the individual, with the therapist listening closely and following the person's lead. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches concrete skills to shift unhelpful patterns.He also brings emotionally-focused ideas into work about relationships and connection, helping people name emotions and respond differently in close interactions. These approaches are chosen to match the issue at hand, whether it is anxiety, ADHD-related challenges, grief, or trouble with impulse control. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best based on goals and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets you see visual cues and practice skills together, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed, live chat works for brief back-and-forth support, and text messaging can support short reflections or reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain continuity between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
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