About Beth
Beth Avery is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 24 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who want to see the whole picture of their life and health. Beth aims for a respectful, two-way relationship where ideas and goals are shared.
She often suggests short observations or articles between meetings to keep progress moving. Beth believes mental and physical health are linked. She has experience as a director of social work in nursing settings, doctors' offices, and visiting nurse services alongside maintaining a independent practice.
How Beth works
That background helps her understand how medical conditions and treatments can affect mood and behavior. Her approach uses systems thinking. Beth looks at the many systems that shape a person's behavior and helps strengthen those areas.
With a client's permission, she communicates with doctors to learn how medications and health concerns may be influencing mood and functioning. She offers help for stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, grief, trauma and abuse, and compassion fatigue. Beth also supports people facing relationship concerns, parenting stress, sleep problems, career strain, and intimacy-related issues.
Additional focus areas include abandonment, attachment issues, adoption and foster care matters, and blended family challenges. Her geriatric social work experience includes chronic illness support such as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's, ALS, and rheumatoid arthritis. She provides guidance on caregiving challenges, Medicare and Medicaid information, finding appropriate care options, and navigating end-of-life and hospice concerns.
Beth lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Beth works with
The areas below are the ones Beth selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 24 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Connecticut |
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Online support options
Practical approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small actions that move a person toward a meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and uses simple exercises to change unhelpful patterns and reduce symptoms like anxiety and sleep trouble.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will ask about goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they pick methods and tweak them as needed so sessions match the client's needs and preferences in a collaborative way.
Online sessions can be done by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different days and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be a quicker check-in or useful when bandwidth is low, and chat or messaging can suit brief updates or on-the-go reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy around medical appointments, caregiving duties, work, or travel.
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