Elle Schwan Avery, LPC

Elle Schwan Avery is a Pennsylvania Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 23 years of experience. She works with adults on concerns such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, and family of origin issues. She also addresses ADHD, grief, anger, and challenges tied to gender and sexual identity.

She describes her role as a guide who partners with clients to look at thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Sessions are straightforward and conversational. She aims to make therapy approachable and free of intimidation.

Her practice focuses on adults age eighteen and older. She uses an eclectic, evidence-informed approach and adapts methods to each person rather than following a single protocol. That means sessions may include practical skills, problem solving, and work on how past family patterns affect current relationships.

She has long experience with family-related concerns, including attachment, abandonment, blended family issues, and other family of origin matters. She helps people notice repeated roles and expectations they grew up with and consider different ways of responding now.

Outside of clinical work she enjoys creative activities such as making beaded jewelry and practices yoga. She asks new contacts to indicate whether they prefer phone, email, or text for initial communication and aims to respond to inquiries within 48 hours.

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