About Elle
Elle Schwan Avery is a licensed professional counselor with 23 years of experience. She guides adults through emotional challenges with a calm, down-to-earth style. People working with her find it easy to talk and feel listened to without judgment.
She offers a practical, flexible approach that adapts to each person. Sessions focus on understanding current problems, identifying unhelpful patterns, and trying out new ways of coping. She helps people manage anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, attention differences, and stress from caregiving or life transitions.
Background and approach
Relationship and intimacy concerns are also addressed, including communication problems, commitment and blended family issues, and separation or divorce. Trauma, abuse, dissociation, and attachment wounds are part of her clinical focus, along with grief, shame, and self-esteem struggles. LGBTQ matters and gender dysphoria are listed among her areas of attention.
Her practice also supports people dealing with addiction, anger, and compassion fatigue. Parents and fatherhood issues, plus family of origin patterns, show up in her work when relevant to an individual’s goals. She emphasizes collaboration - planning goals together and adjusting the approach as needed.
Outside of counseling, she enjoys yoga and making beaded jewelry, which reflects a creative, open-minded outlook. She typically replies to inquiries within 48 hours and asks people to state a preferred contact method. To begin, clients use the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling.
How therapeutic approaches shape online work
Elle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to each person. One common approach focuses on teaching practical coping skills to manage anxiety, mood swings, and daily stressors. This involves learning simple strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and testing those strategies between sessions.Another approach addresses trauma and attachment concerns by helping people make sense of painful experiences and the ways those experiences affect current relationships. Work like this often involves building safety in the relationship with the therapist and practicing new ways of relating to oneself and others.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before recommending techniques. Plans are reviewed and adjusted together as progress is made.
If you prefer online sessions, please confirm current session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Many people find online therapy helps fit sessions into busy days, allows shorter check-ins when needed, and reduces travel time. Licensed professionals can tailor pacing and homework to make sessions feel practical and usable in everyday life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English