About April
April Riley is a Florida licensed clinical social worker with 28 years of practice. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, grief, and the everyday strains of life. Her approach centers on listening and supporting each person as they figure out what will work for them.
April views clients as the experts on their own stories. She looks for practical strengths to build on and offers straightforward tools to try between sessions.
How April works
Conversations focus on concrete steps and small changes that can make daily life more manageable. Her work draws on client-centered methods that keep the person's goals central. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused strategies help when people want clear direction and short-term progress. April has long experience helping people cope with trauma, grief, chronic health concerns, and substance use. She also assists those struggling with sleep, anger, self-esteem, work stress, relationship patterns, and caregiving strain.
Her practice includes attention to aging and geriatric concerns, chronic pain and illness, and the emotional fallout of major life disruption. Sessions are aimed at real-world changes. April works with each person to set doable goals and track small wins.
She encourages practical plans clients can use between meetings to build momentum and reduce overwhelm.
April lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What April works with
The areas below are the ones April selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 28 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches and how online sessions can help
April uses client-centered therapy, which means conversations focus on the person's goals and experience while the therapist listens and reflects. This approach helps people clarify what matters and decide which steps to try next.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. CBT helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and practice different ways of responding to stress, anxiety, sleep problems, or low mood.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. April will talk with the person about their goals and try methods that match those priorities. Together they adjust techniques over time to find what helps most for symptoms like trauma responses, addiction challenges, grief, or caregiving strain.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that helps. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or camera use is unwanted. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter, more frequent touchpoints to stay on track.
These options offer flexibility and preserve continuity of care so work on goals can continue even when schedules or circumstances change.
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