About Adrian
Adrian Quintero is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in California. Adrian offers calm, practical support for people facing identity questions, grief, anxiety, and life changes.
Background and approach
They focus on listening first and helping clients find clear next steps. Adrian practices with a client-centered stance that values each person’s experience.
They use attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings, and cognitive behavioral techniques to notice and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with room for reflection and skill-building.
People come to Adrian for help with LGBTQ concerns, gender dysphoria, and body image questions. They also address grief and hospice-related stress, caregiver strain, and compassion fatigue.
Other areas include ADHD, anxiety, depression, isolation, and issues around attachment and abandonment. Adrian brings three years of professional experience to the work and keeps the focus on collaboration.
In sessions they help clients set realistic goals, try small changes between meetings, and track what helps. The aim is steady progress that fits each person’s life.
Therapy is offered remotely through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time, and rates vary with location and therapist availability.
How Adrian blends relational and practical approaches online
Adrian commonly uses client-centered methods that prioritize where the person is in the moment and attachment-based ideas that look at how relationships influence feelings. Client-centered work focuses on listening deeply and following the client’s lead, which helps when someone needs acceptance and clarity. Attachment-based work examines patterns in close relationships and can help with trust, abandonment, or connection struggles.Adrian also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT-style work often involves setting clear goals, trying small experiments between sessions, and tracking progress over time. Together these approaches give both space to talk and concrete tools to try between meetings, and Adrian will help decide which mix fits each person’s needs and goals.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes scheduling more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversational work and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging works for ongoing reflections or brief updates. Adrian will collaborate with clients to pick formats that fit their routines and comfort while focusing on reachable steps and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English