About April
April Stevens is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 21 years in the field. She helps people facing addiction, trauma, anxiety, depression, parenting strain, ADHD, grief, and stress. She focuses on practical tools so clients can feel steadier and more in control of daily life.
She earned both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Social Work with a mental health focus during graduate study. April holds an LCSW in Utah and an LICSW that was issued in Alabama.
How April works
Her background includes internships in child protective services and work with veterans on PTSD and substance use concerns. April works in a straightforward, task-oriented way. She uses techniques that help clients spot unhelpful thinking and change behaviors.
Sessions often include skills practice, thought reframing, journaling, and concrete strategies to manage mood, stress, and relationships. She has experience with people across the lifespan, from young children to older adults, and with issues such as parenting and co-parenting, intimacy and relationship problems, substance use recovery, life transitions, and end-of-life stressors. April emphasizes teaching tools clients can use between sessions.
Her style is warm and down-to-earth. She aims to build rapport quickly and to make sessions practical and focused on change. People who want to learn coping skills and clearer ways to manage emotions may find her approach helpful.
April lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What April works with
The areas below are the ones April selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Utah |
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Online support options
How therapeutic methods translate to online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, acceptance, and following the client's lead to set goals; it helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort feelings and make decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches people to notice unhelpful thoughts and to try different behaviors; it’s useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and problems like sleep or eating struggles. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clear skills for handling intense feelings and relationship strain.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. That decision can change as therapy progresses and new challenges come up.
The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm the available options before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, and reduce travel time. Licensed professionals can use skills practice, thought-reframing exercises, journal prompts, and homework between sessions to help translate therapy into real life.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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