About Beth
Beth Avery is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 24 years of practice. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and life changes. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth, aimed at practical steps that make daily life feel more manageable.
She blends clinical practice with experience from healthcare settings. That background gives her insight into how physical health and mental health interact. Beth often consults, with client permission, with a person’s medical providers to understand medication effects or medical contributors to mood and functioning.
Background and approach
Beth uses a systems perspective to look at all the parts that affect someone’s life. She and the client track patterns in relationships, routines, and health, then work on strengthening those areas. Homework can include short observations, skill practice, or reading an article between sessions.
Her work has included geriatric social work in nursing facilities, home health, and clinics. That experience informs support for caregiving stress, chronic illness, aging concerns, and navigating services like Medicare and Medicaid. Beth helps people find options for long-term care and advocate for loved ones in skilled nursing settings.
Sessions focus on clear goals and practical strategies. Clients can expect respect, equal collaboration, and straightforward suggestions. Beth aims to help people see the whole picture and build small changes that add up to better daily functioning.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying what matters to a person and taking small, committed steps toward those values. It can help when anxiety, depression, or life changes keep someone stuck and unwilling to try new behaviors.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches concrete skills to shift unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, insomnia, low mood, and problem-solving daily challenges.
Beth will work together with each person to choose or combine approaches that fit their needs and goals. She treats the choice of approach as part of the work, adjusting strategies over time based on what helps most. This is a collaborative process that aims to find useful tools and small changes that fit a person’s life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and messaging are helpful for brief updates, tracking progress, or adding support between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving schedules, or periods of limited mobility, while keeping focus on practical progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English