April Stevens, LCSW, LICSW

April Stevens is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with two state licenses: Utah LICSW and Alabama LICSW. She has 21 years of clinical experience and regularly helps people facing anger, addiction, trauma, parenting stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns.

She writes plainly with practical tools. Sessions focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real situations. Clients learn skills for managing strong emotions, changing behaviors that cause problems, and improving communication with others.

Her training includes a bachelor's and a master's degree in social work, with field placements in child protective services and at a veterans affairs medical center. She has long experience supporting people across life stages, from young adults to older adults, and has worked with issues such as substance use recovery, grief, and end-of-life stressors.

In sessions she often uses Rational Emotive Behavioral approaches alongside cognitive behavioral techniques. That means she helps people spot irrational or automatic thoughts, try out reframed thinking, and practice small behavior changes that reduce reactivity and build better patterns over time.

She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills, Gottman relationship tools, motivational interviewing, and journaling when those methods fit a client's goals. The emphasis is on concrete exercises people can use between meetings to steady their reactions, lower stress, and handle conflict more clearly.

To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session. April encourages people who want practical strategies for anger, stress, or relationship strain to reach out and try a focused plan of action.

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