Adekunle "Ade" Ojelade, LCSW

Adekunle "Ade" Ojelade is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience. He helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and depression. He also offers coaching to support life changes and coping. Ade works from a strengths-based perspective and focuses on hope and resilience.

Ade uses talk-based work to help people sort through painful memories and daily struggles. He draws on client-centered methods to follow each person's pace and priorities. He also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and DBT skills for emotion regulation.

He has worked in both Europe and the United States and brings that experience into sessions. Ade often blends mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity and EMDR-informed ideas when trauma memories need another approach. His aim is practical: reduce distress and build daily routines that help.

Ade supports people dealing with abandonment or attachment concerns, body image, cancer-related stress, caregiver strain, chronic pain, codependency, and relationship communication problems. He also helps with commitment worries, control issues, dissociation, and the fallout of divorce and separation.

The first meetings focus on what matters most to the person seeking help. From there he and the client plan realistic steps, coping skills, and goals. Sessions are collaborative and paced to match each client's comfort and needs.

Approaches used in remote therapy and what they do

Ade blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques to address everyday problems and negative thinking patterns. Client-centered work means the conversation follows what matters to the person, and the therapist helps them clarify goals and choices. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression.

He also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. Those skills can help when feelings feel intense or relationships are strained. Together these approaches aim to give concrete tools as well as space to process difficult experiences.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to decide which methods fit best based on needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative plan can change over time as progress is made or priorities shift.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also make it simpler to continue work during illness or recovery, while the therapist and client test what frequency and length of sessions work best.