Beth Avery, LCSW

Beth Avery, Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Connecticut, has 24 years of practice. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, mood disorders, caregiving strain, and issues like parenting, intimacy, and sleep. She describes her work as looking at the whole picture and uses systems thinking to see how health, relationships, and context affect behavior.

She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy. Sessions emphasize practical strategies and observation between meetings, such as reading an article or tracking patterns. She often coordinates with a client's medical providers when permitted to understand how medications and physical health influence mental health.

Her background includes directing social work in skilled nursing facilities, doctors' offices, and visiting nurse programs alongside private practice. That experience shaped her focus on how physical illness and aging intersect with mental health. She lists geriatric social work and chronic illness care among her areas of expertise.

She helps people assess caregiving demands, plan for long-term care choices, and navigate Medicare and Medicaid options. She also supports those facing diagnoses like MS, Parkinson's, ALS, cancer, or dementia-related concerns. Practical tasks such as locating appropriate care settings and advocating in nursing facilities are part of her work.

Sessions aim to balance ideas and suggestions in an equal working relationship. She may offer readings, ask clients to make observations between sessions, and collaborate with medical teams when helpful. The approach centers on strengthening the systems that influence a person's life.

Therapeutic approaches used in remote sessions