Beth Avery, LCSW

Beth Avery is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Connecticut with 24 years of clinical experience. As an LCSW she brings advanced training in mental health assessment, psychotherapy, and care coordination, and combines that expertise with years of leadership work in skilled nursing facilities, doctors offices, and home health services. This blend of private practice and institutional experience gives her a clear perspective on how physical health and medical care intersect with emotional wellbeing.

She views problems through a systems lens, recognizing that a single diagnosis rarely exists in isolation. By mapping the systems that influence an individual - family dynamics, medical conditions, caregiving roles, and social supports - she helps clients identify practical ways to strengthen those systems and improve overall functioning. When appropriate and with the client s permission, she consults with treating physicians to better understand how medications and physical health issues may be shaping mood, sleep, energy, and cognition.

Her clinical focus includes geriatric social work and chronic illness such as MS, Parkinson s disease, ALS, and rheumatoid arthritis, along with caregiver strain, dementia and Alzheimer s care, end-of-life planning, and anticipatory grief. She also works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, bipolar disorder, relationship and family concerns, parenting and blended family issues, self-esteem, and intimacy-related problems. Practical matters like navigating Medicare and Medicaid, finding appropriate levels of care - at home, assisted living, or skilled nursing facilities - and advocating for a loved one are central to her work.

Sessions emphasize a collaborative, equal partnership in which ideas and suggestions are exchanged openly. She often shares readings or asks clients to make observations between sessions to deepen insight and support ongoing change. Beth Avery centers care on the whole person - physical, emotional, and social - and supports clients in finding clearer paths forward.