Adriana believes that therapy is a partnership between the client and the therapist. This collaborative relationship helps to foster positive changes and promotes growth, healing, and healthier interactions in all aspects of life. She aims to make a safe and welcoming space where each client has a voice. Working with several disciplines from her background with children, individuals, couples, and families, her goal is to find what works best with each client system and go from there.
While working with couples, Adriana has found that some partnerships need to heal things from their individual pasts in order to move forward in the present. She offers tools to help heal old wounds while also gaining communication skills, a better understanding of a partner’s world, and how couples can move forward together.
Adriana received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Stony Brook University and her master’s degree in marriage and family therapy at Hofstra University. In her recent work at The Joan & Arnold Saltzman Center, she has been privileged to work with people from all walks of life. As a result, she has had training in attachment disorder, cognitive behavioral therapy with children, and LGBTQ workshops.
Adriana is a certified Prepare-Enrich counselor with premarital counseling experience.