As a Licensed Professional Counselor with over a decade of experience, Dr. Adina Silvestri is passionate about empowering individuals to overcome challenges and reclaim their lives. Specializing in addiction recovery, eating disorders, and alternative healing approaches such as Hypnotherapy, Brainspotting, and Internal Family Systems, Dr. Silvestri offers a holistic approach to mental health and wellness.

Dr. Silvestri is also the founder of Writing Bravely: A Course for Using Writing as a Coping Mechanism, a unique program designed to help individuals process trauma and cultivate resilience through expressive writing. She is a firm believer in the transformative power of storytelling, and her work encourages others to explore their emotions and experiences through the written word.

Beyond her clinical practice, Dr. Silvestri is an accomplished educator, speaker, and author. She teaches future counselors, supervises counselors-in-training, and actively participates in community development through leadership roles and volunteer work.

Speaker Topics

• Transforming Trauma Through Expressive Writing
• Addiction Recovery and Mental Health
• The Power of Hypnotherapy and Alternative Healing Methods
• Navigating Eating Disorders and Body Image Issues
• Exploring Memory and Place Through Writing

Publications (Selected)

Richmond Family Magazine

• Am I An Addict? Asking Yourself Tough Questions (2014)
• What is Anger? An Emotion with a Bad Reputation (June 2015)
• 9 Steps to Forgiveness (July 2016)
• 8 Steps to Overcome Shame (July 2017)
• Eating Disorders & Teens: Why More Young People Are at Risk (October 2017)
• Modern Masculinity: Who and What Defines Manhood (November 2019)

The Addiction Advisor

• My Experience Working with Women and Substance Abuse (November 2015)

Bustle

• 11 Surprising Ways Complaining Can Affect Your Health (July 2018)

Other notable contributions

• 101 Careers in Counseling, 2nd ed., by S. Hodges (contributed to pages 142-144)