Avery Lewis (she/her) is a community organizer, activist, meditation and movement instructor, and clinical psychotherapist. She is warm, understanding, genuine, and emotionally attuned. 

Avery’s therapeutic approach integrates person-centered, psychodynamic, family systems, cognitive behavioral, emotion-focused, and somatic (body-centered) psychotherapy. The mind-body connection is an especially important component of Avery’s therapeutic style. Clients may be invited to attend to their own nervous system in session, and build awareness of when and how their emotions show up in their body. Avery encourages and supports clients to be in partnership with their bodies as they strengthen their mental and relational health. 

While Avery is skilled at weaving body-based practices into therapy, she believes that no one approach will work for every client, and applies therapeutic techniques flexibly to meet each client’s specific needs, desires, and goals. Avery is especially interested in supporting individuals, couples, and families through major life transitions, interpersonal struggles, grief, anxiety, and depression.

Avery identifies as a queer, cisgender woman. Her approach to counseling is rooted in anti-oppression and decolonial praxis. Avery applies gender-affirming, body-positive, and sex-positive frameworks to her role as a therapist, and ascribes to the liberatory practice of healing justice. She has found psychotherapy and embodiment practices to be personally essential to her sustained activism. Avery has worked collaboratively in the community to bring mental health services to those impacted by incarceration, substance use disorders, and health disparities. Her passion lies at the intersection of individual, familial, and community healing.

Avery holds a Masters in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University. She has completed additional trainings in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma Resiliency, Racial Justice, and Embodied Ancestral Inquiry for White Somatic Practitioners.