About Beth
Beth Avery is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 24 years of experience. She helps people who want to see the whole picture of how life, health, and relationships fit together. Beth writes practical suggestions and sometimes asks clients to try observations between sessions.
She draws on experience from roles in skilled nursing, doctors' offices, visiting nursing, and independent practice. That mix shaped her view that physical health and mental health influence each other.
Background and approach
She looks at how medications, medical conditions, and daily routines affect mood and coping. Beth uses a systems approach to understand behavior. That means she considers the different parts of a person’s life - family, work, health care, and community - and how they interact.
She works with clients to strengthen those systems and to set realistic goals. Her areas of focus include anxiety, stress, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, sleep issues, relationship concerns, parenting strain, and caregiver stress. She also supports people dealing with aging, chronic illness, adoption and foster care issues, and other complex life challenges.
When clients agree, Beth communicates with their medical providers to better understand medication effects and health factors that relate to mental health. She approaches the therapeutic relationship as a partnership, sharing ideas and suggestions rather than giving one-sided direction. Her background in geriatric social work also informs work around end-of-life planning, dementia caregiving, and navigating services like Medicare and Medicaid.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that align with those values. It helps people manage anxiety, stress, and life transitions by teaching practical ways to stay present and act toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and feelings interact and offers tools to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping with difficult life events. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early and current relationships shape trust, intimacy, and emotional patterns; it can help with relationship struggles, abandonment issues, and feelings of emptiness.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Beth will work with each person to identify goals and try strategies that fit their needs and preferences. She often combines methods and adjusts plans based on what helps in actual day-to-day life.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Beth offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what works best for a given week. Phone or text can be good for quick check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, while video supports more in-depth conversation. These options support flexibility for caregivers, people managing health appointments, or anyone balancing work and family.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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