About Avery
Avery Alexander is a licensed clinical social worker with five years of professional experience. She practiced in community centers and nonprofit outreach roles before moving into clinical care. Avery brings a background shaped by community work and a desire to help people find tools that make daily life easier.
Avery earned a Bachelor of Science in Human Services with a counseling focus from Northeastern University and completed a Master of Social Work at Simmons College.
How Avery works
She lives and practices in Utah as a UT LCSW. Sessions are offered in English. Her approach is straightforward and practical.
Avery listens first, then helps clients set small, actionable steps. She often uses client-centered conversation alongside cognitive behavioral ideas and dialectical behavior strategies to tackle immediate problems like stress, sleep issues, or strong moods. Avery works with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, and ADHD.
She also supports people facing relationship strain, attachment and abandonment worries, body image problems, and challenges tied to adoption and foster care. In session, Avery focuses on building coping skills, improving communication, and increasing self-compassion. She uses motivational interviewing and mindfulness practices when they fit a person’s goals.
Her style is collaborative and paced to the client’s needs.
Avery lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Avery works with
The areas below are the ones Avery selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Utah |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches translate online
Avery uses client-centered therapy to start most conversations, which means sessions begin with listening to what matters most to the client and following their pace. This approach helps when sorting through stress, grief, or decisions about next steps.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing small behavior changes. CBT can be useful for anxiety, sleep problems, mood shifts, and coping with life changes. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are another tool she uses to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication when emotions run high.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Avery will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try strategies together and adjust as needed. She frames therapy as a team effort and checks in about what is helping and what should change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is low, chat or text can suit short check-ins or notes between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into workdays, school schedules, or busy family routines.
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