Tequina Adams-Ballew, LCSW

Tequina Adams-Ballew is an LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) with nine years of clinical experience based in Utah. She helps people who are managing stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, and life changes. She also works with issues such as abandonment, codependency, communication problems, guilt and shame, panic attacks, phobias, seasonal mood changes, social anxiety, and young adult issues.

Her approach suits people who reflect on themselves and want to understand their patterns. Sessions mix direct feedback with close listening. She balances validation with honesty and will challenge unhelpful thinking when it will help progress.

In practical terms she focuses on improving day-to-day functioning. That can mean managing nervous system reactions, learning clearer communication, or developing boundaries that feel livable. She talks through concrete steps and skills as well as the feelings beneath them.

Tequina sees therapy as a collaborative effort. She works with each person to identify goals and test approaches that fit their life. Clinical choices are drawn from evidence-based therapeutic techniques.

People often come with repeated patterns in relationships or with anxiety that limits activities. In sessions she helps name those patterns and practices ways to change them. The aim is clearer thinking and steadier coping in everyday situations.

Evidence-based approaches and online care