Adriana Kipper-Smith 
Welcome to my practice!

I am a bicultural clinical psychologist who is passionate about working with the stories of struggle and growth which are essential to the journey of self-awareness. I am deeply honored to witness my clients reinvent themselves and create more meaningful and nurturing relationships.

Weaving my 25+ years of training and experience in Brazil and in the U.S., I utilize an integrative and culturally responsive approach to psychotherapy, grounded in insight-oriented, cognitive behavioral, and mindfulness-based strategies.   

Services provided in English or Portuguese

  • Having a non-judgmental, reasoned voice during this difficult time in my life has helped me in ways too numerous to list. I don’t know how you have the patience to do your job but I’m so thankful for you and your seemingly limitless capacity for empathy. Your willingness to help me identify and process my emotions has changed my life.

  • Adriana, words simply cannot describe how beautiful, helpful, and enlightening this journey has been. Thank you for the patience, space, and wisdom as I start to discover my brain and heart, and all the emotions in between.

  • Adriana is fantastic! She always probed deeper into problematic mindset I held that I didn’t think were a big deal/needed to be dealt with. One thing I often struggle with in therapy is brushing things or downplaying how I’m doing, and thus not really knowing what to talk about and feeling like I was wasting the therapist’s time. But she saw right through that and helped me grow during a very stressful time.

  • Through your insights and guided inquiry, you have helped me learn how to reconnect with myself and be braver with other important people in my life.

What is Psychotherapy?

Psychotherapy is a vehicle through which one works on becoming the best version of themselves. It is based on careful listening and accurate assessment of current resources, struggles, strengths, and values. The bedrock of psychotherapy is made of trust and psychological safety, vulnerability and confidentiality.

“Who’s to say the effort to be real isn’t the beginning of wings?”

- MARK NEPO