About Beth
Beth Avery is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 24 years of experience based in Connecticut. She helps people who want to see the whole picture of their mental health. Her work is direct and practical, and she focuses on how life stress, anxiety, relationships, and health all interact.
Beth blends clinical work in independent practice with years of experience in nursing homes, doctors' offices, and visiting nurse services. That background gives her a clear sense of how physical health and medical care affect mood, sleep, energy, and daily functioning.
Background and approach
She looks at health concerns alongside emotional and social pressures. Her approach uses systems thinking - looking at the networks and routines that shape behavior. She works alongside people to strengthen those systems, whether that means adjusting daily routines, improving communication, or coordinating with medical providers.
With permission, she will consult with doctors about medications and health issues that may influence mental health. Sessions are collaborative and respectful. Beth treats the therapeutic relationship as a two-way conversation of ideas and suggestions.
She often shares articles and asks clients to try short observations or exercises between sessions to track what changes. Her practice includes support for caregivers, aging and geriatric concerns, chronic illness, grief and bereavement, and stress related to caregiving or life transitions. Beth also addresses issues such as depression, bipolar disorder, trauma, intimacy concerns, and career or parenting stress.
Therapy approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that reflect their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes by focusing on what matters rather than fighting every thought. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical exercises to change patterns that feed anxiety or depression. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current patterns in close connections and can help with intimacy, abandonment worries, and relationship clashes.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful. Together they will try methods and adjust the plan if something isn’t working, keeping the process collaborative and goal-focused.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions are good for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions can fit a break at work or low bandwidth times, and chat or text messages work well for quick check-ins or brief skill practice. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work between sessions.
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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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