About Gavin
Gavin Chadwell is a licensed clinical mental health counselor with a focus on stress and anxiety. He brings a calm, practical approach to sessions and helps people name what feels overwhelming. He aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone juggling work, relationships, school, or family demands.
Gavin uses straightforward techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy along with mindfulness practices. He helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, try small behavior changes, and build skills for everyday coping.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-oriented, with concrete tools to try between meetings. He also has experience supporting people with addictions and mood-related concerns. That background informs how he approaches cravings, relapse risk, and mood swings while keeping focus on day-to-day recovery tasks.
He emphasizes practical steps that fit into a person's routine. Gavin works to create a non-judgmental environment where clients can talk frankly about grief, anger, intimacy, sleep problems, or career stress. He invites people to move at their own pace and uses motivational interviewing to help clarify what matters most to them.
With ten years of experience and the Vermont LCMHC credential, he offers an encouraging, skill-based style. He speaks English and accepts international clients. If someone is looking for calm, concrete help with anxiety or life transitions, he frames therapy as a set of clear next steps rather than vague promises.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy emphasizes the person's own goals and choices, so online sessions start by asking what matters most and shaping work around that. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes; online sessions often include worksheets, behavioral experiments, and follow-up tasks to practice between meetings. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, which can be reviewed and practiced during shorter check-ins or in text-based exchanges.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. That may mean trying CBT techniques for immediate anxiety relief, adding mindfulness practices for ongoing stress, or using motivational interviewing to strengthen commitment to change.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing of worksheets. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or to get brief coaching during a hard day. These options help therapy fit real life while keeping the focus on skills and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Vermont
- Languages
- English
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