Providers In Connecticut With Self Pay

Adam Russo

Adam Russo is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC). Adam has a Masters Degree in Professional Counseling from Central CT State University, spending roughly 8.5 years being educated and supervised in the behavioral health arena. In total, Adam has over 20 years experience as either an educator, instructor, and mental health worker. Adam is licensed to talk about people's strengths and challenges and help them develop solutions, strategies, or insight into their current situations. Professional Counselors typically have a strong background in treating physical and mental health disabilities and excel in many forms of individual and group psychotherapy. They also have typically a strong focus on vocational counseling since much of your identity and purpose lays both in the work that you do and the people you positively influence in your life. Adam also spent seven total years in the United States Navy both active duty and ready reserves and had the rare honor of being a recipient of an Admiral's Citation. After receiving his honorable discharge, he received his Associates degree from Middlesex Community College and Bachelors Degree from Charter Oak State College in Criminal Justice; receiving the Sergeant Dingwall State Award for Academic Excellence (an award NOT given out annually in the state). Adam had extensive crisis intervention experience as a Shift Coordinator for a Residential Treatment Facility for serious juvenile offenders. He completed his three semester graduate internship experience at the Rocky Hill Veterans' Home at both their immediate care and former substance rehabilitation programs. Adam also worked as a Lead Counselor for a leading outpatient counseling family for mostly mandated clients and then as an Intensive In-Home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Service (IICAPS Yale Program for children that may be at risk for inpatient hospitalization) Clinician for a leading child psychotherapy provider. Most recently Adam has worked as a counselor at a nearby hospital in their adult acute psychiatric inpatient department (“Psych Ward”) helping individuals with acute psychiatric challenges. Some interesting facts about Adam: He worked for the Transportation Security Administration He traveled the world as a Fire Control Technician in the Navy Obtained a Jr. Black Belt in Parker Kenpo Karate as a junior in high school Is a little bit of a nerd! Love electronics, carpentry, mechanics, and electrical Adam is a proud father and has been together with his wife for over 12 years! ​ Why is all of this important? It has been determined by several research studies (Miller, Duncan, & Hubble,1997; Miller, Hubble, & Duncan, 1995) that the model and technique a therapist uses only constitutes 15% of overall therapeutic outcomes. 40% was attributed to extra-therapeutic factors (income, transportation, etc.) and 30% was due to the therapeutic relationship you have with your counselor! That means first a foremost, your therapist should to be obtainable (e.g. close by, attainable) and perhaps most importantly MUST be someone you like, trust, and think can help you! Does your therapist have a similar culture? Is gender of your therapist important when it comes to trust or previous traumatic experience? Is the model they are practicing in line with your belief system? (e.g. are you the expert of your own life or is the person you are going to be seeing?) This stuff is really important!