Ramata Adebawo

Ramata Adebawo is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in Oregon. She holds a state clinical social work license (OR LCSW L10747) and brings seven years of professional experience to her work with diverse individuals and families.

Raised outside the United States and later moving to the U.S., Ramata’s cultural competence is formed by a lifetime of cross-cultural exposure. Her personal and professional experiences encouraged her to notice both commonalities and differences in the human experience, shaping a worldview that values diverse cultural backgrounds, religions, and life stories. She is committed to partnering with people who may feel unheard, working collaboratively as an advocate and teammate to support their goals.

Her counseling style is warm, empathetic, and client-centered, guided by mindfulness and careful attention to each person’s needs. Ramata draws on strengths-based methods alongside cognitive-behavioral and solution-focused strategies to create individualized treatment plans. Throughout the therapeutic process she emphasizes compassion and sensitivity to help people navigate change and challenge.

Ramata specializes in a broad range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting issues, self-esteem, career difficulties, addictions, LGBT-related concerns, relationship and family conflicts, grief, intimacy-related issues, anger management, depression, coping with life changes, coaching, and compassion fatigue. She also has experience working with immigrant and refugee populations, internationally adopted children, and matters related to adoption and foster care. Clinically, she uses client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), mindfulness therapy, motivational interviewing, psychodynamic therapy, solution-focused therapy, and trauma-focused approaches to meet each client’s needs.