About Avery
Avery Alexander is a licensed clinical social worker with five years of experience helping people manage stress, mood challenges, and life transitions. She practices from Utah and brings a background in community outreach and mentoring to her work. Avery listens first and helps people figure out practical next steps they can try between sessions.
She trained in human services and social work, earning a Bachelor of Science in Human Services and a Master of Social Work.
Background and approach
That education sits alongside hands-on work in community centers and nonprofit programs. Those roles shaped a straightforward, down-to-earth way of working with clients. Avery favors clear, practical tools.
She uses client-centered conversations to understand what matters most. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot patterns of thinking that keep problems going. Mindfulness and skills from dialectical behavior therapy help people manage intense emotions and reduce reactivity.
Typical concerns Avery addresses include anxiety, depression, mood disorders, addiction, grief, trouble sleeping, low self-esteem, and ADHD. She also supports people dealing with attachment issues, adoption and foster care questions, body image struggles, and codependency. She frames these topics in everyday terms and focuses on steps that feel doable.
Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented. Avery works in plain language and helps clients practice new skills between meetings. She aims to make therapy accessible by offering several remote formats and by explaining options clearly so people can choose what fits their life.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions work
Avery uses client-centered therapy to focus sessions on each persons priorities. This approach means the conversation starts with what matters most and follows the clients pace. It helps when someone needs steady support and clear listening.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT offers simple tools to test unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Dialectical behavior therapy skills appear in her work too, offering grounding, emotion-regulation, and distress-tolerance techniques for strong feelings.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Avery works collaboratively to pick and adjust methods based on a clients goals and preferences. She explains options in plain language and often combines tools so they fit daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different needs. Video is useful for longer sessions and skill teaching. Phone calls suit people with lower bandwidth or who prefer voice only. Live chat and messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, short coaching, or when written reflection feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, school, or busy family days.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English