Adrienne Forney, LPC, LCMHC

Adrienne Forney is a licensed counselor with 16 years of clinical experience, practicing in North Carolina and South Carolina. She holds the LPC credential, which stands for Licensed Professional Counselor, and the LCMHC credential, which stands for Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor. Adrienne has worked extensively with people facing stress and anxiety, substance use concerns including heroin, cocaine, marijuana, alcohol, and prescription drugs, family conflict, trauma and abuse, and challenges related to incarceration.

Her style is warm and empathetic, focused on helping individuals build strength and move toward their goals. Adrienne emphasizes creating an open environment where thoughts and feelings can be expressed without judgment, and she collaborates with each person to identify practical steps for growth. She brings experience supporting people through relationships, attachment and abandonment issues, caregiver stress, chronic health concerns, addiction recovery, and the emotional impacts of divorce and family disruption.

Taking the first step toward therapy can take courage, and Adrienne recognizes that effort. She welcomes those who are ready to begin work on personal challenges and looks forward to partnering with clients on the path toward greater resilience and well being.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Adrienne uses evidence based approaches tailored to each person she works with. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being controlled by them while identifying meaningful values to guide action - it can be useful for anxiety, stress, and adjustment to life challenges. Attachment Based Therapy focuses on patterns in relationships formed early in life and how they influence current connections, which is helpful for attachment issues, abandonment concerns, and family conflict. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Adrienne works collaboratively with clients to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts techniques over time as progress and priorities evolve.

Online therapy offers flexible options including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, reduce travel time, and maintain continuity of care when in person meetings are not possible. Licensed professionals can provide meaningful support through these channels while working with clients toward practical, manageable change.