Adele Duba-Nagel, LCSW

Adele Duba-Nagel is an Illinois Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 12 years of experience. She works with people dealing with addictions, relationship and family concerns, low self-esteem, and life changes. Adele lists codependency and related struggles such as communication problems, control issues, and substance use as areas she addresses.

Adele takes a person-centered approach that frames the client as the expert in their own life. Sessions are collaborative and guided by the client’s goals. She looks at the whole person - mental and physical health, core beliefs, family history, and daily life - to understand what keeps problems repeating.

In practice she helps people identify strengths and small, workable steps. Conversations focus on concrete changes: setting boundaries, managing urges around alcohol or nicotine, improving communication, and building steady self-respect. She avoids labeling people as the problem and instead treats difficulties as human responses to life events.

Adele asks questions about what matters to each person. Together they map patterns that cause guilt, shame, isolation, or jealousy and try out different ways of responding. She emphasizes practical coping skills and clearer ways of relating to others.

Her work with addictions includes smoking and vaping cessation and support for drug and alcohol concerns. She also helps with family of origin issues and the fallout from long-term caretaking or people-pleasing. The overall aim is clearer choices and more consistent, manageable steps toward better relationships and personal goals.

Approaches for changing relationship patterns online