Beth Avery

Beth Avery is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Connecticut with 24 years of experience. She helps people who want to understand how health, relationships, and life events fit together. She listens, asks questions, and offers practical ideas you can try between sessions.

She takes a systems view, looking at the many parts of life that shape how someone feels and behaves. That might include health conditions, doctors and medications, family roles, or caregiving responsibilities. She often collaborates with medical providers when clients give permission, so physical and mental health can be considered together.

Her background includes directing social work in skilled nursing facilities and working with visiting nurses and medical practices. That work shaped her focus on aging, chronic illness, and caregiver stress. She also supports people facing grief, end-of-life planning, relationship and intimacy concerns, depression, anxiety, and trauma.

In sessions she mixes practical strategies with listening and reflection. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral approaches, mindfulness, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-informed work, and skills from dialectical behavior approaches. She may suggest readings or simple observations to try between meetings.

Beth aims for a collaborative relationship where clients bring their goals and she offers options and feedback. She focuses on helping people see the whole picture and strengthen the systems around them so they can feel more stable and capable.

Using practical approaches for online care and life challenges

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take small steps toward what matters. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions, and offers concrete tools to change unhelpful patterns and improve sleep, mood, or behavior. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people rebuild safer, more trusting ways of relating.

Finding the right approach is often part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and tailor methods based on a client’s goals, health concerns, and daily life. This is a collaborative process where the client’s needs guide which tools are used and when.

Please confirm current session formats before booking so you know what is offered. Online therapy can save travel time, make it easier to fit appointments into a busy day, and allow brief check-ins when a full in-person visit isn’t practical. It also makes it simpler to coordinate with doctors when medications or physical health are part of the discussion.