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Averie Mount, LPC
Children, teens, and young adults can experience challenges that feel difficult to understand, manage, or overcome on their own. Averie Mount, LPC, provides compassionate, supportive therapy for children, adolescents, and young adults ages 7–21 who are navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, behavioral concerns, family conflict, neurodivergence, or other emotional and behavioral challenges.
Averie creates a safe, welcoming environment where young clients can feel heard, understood, and respected. Through an individualized, strengths-based approach, she helps clients make sense of difficult experiences, develop healthier ways to cope, improve emotional regulation, and build confidence and resilience.
Whether a young person is struggling at home, at school, within relationships, or internally, Averie works collaboratively with clients and their families to help them develop the skills they need to move forward.
What I Offer
Averie works with children, teens, and young adults experiencing a wide range of emotional, behavioral, relational, and developmental concerns. Her areas of focus include:
- Trauma and PTSD
- Anxiety and depression
- Thoughts of self-harm or suicide
- Behavioral concerns at home or school
- ADHD and autism
- Anger and impulse-control difficulties
- Family conflict and divorce
- Peer and relationship challenges
- Low self-esteem and confidence
- Mood and emotional regulation concerns
- School-related difficulties
- Sleep concerns and insomnia
- Coping with stressful or overwhelming experiences
- Sexual abuse and other traumatic experiences
- Learning and intellectual disabilities
- Caregiver and parenting concerns
- Attachment and relationship concerns
Therapy is tailored to each client's developmental level, personality, strengths, needs, and goals. Averie helps young people process distressing experiences, recognize patterns that may be holding them back, challenge unhelpful thoughts and fears, and develop practical strategies for managing emotions and behaviors.
Why Choose Averie Mount, LPC?
Finding the right therapist for a child, teenager, or young adult can make an important difference. Averie understands that every young person communicates and processes emotions differently. Some clients may express themselves through conversation, while others may benefit from creative, play-based, or experiential approaches.
Averie combines warmth and compassion with evidence-based therapeutic techniques to create a supportive environment where clients can work through challenges at their own pace. She focuses not only on the difficulties a young person is experiencing, but also on their strengths, abilities, relationships, and potential.
Her goal is to help clients develop greater self-awareness, emotional regulation, confidence, self-control, and resilience while providing families with support and practical tools along the way.
Client Focus
Averie provides therapy for children, adolescents, and young adults ages 7–21. She works with clients who may be experiencing:
Emotional Concerns: Anxiety, depression, stress, low self-esteem, mood concerns, emotional dysregulation, and difficulty coping with overwhelming feelings.
Trauma-Related Concerns: Traumatic experiences, PTSD symptoms, sexual abuse, distressing memories, fears, and difficulty feeling safe or secure.
Behavioral Concerns: Anger, impulsivity, behavioral difficulties, chronic impulsivity, difficulty with self-control, and challenges at home or school.
Neurodevelopmental Concerns: ADHD, autism, Asperger's syndrome, learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, and emotional or behavioral challenges associated with neurodivergence.
Family and Relationship Concerns: Family conflict, divorce, caregiver concerns, attachment difficulties, parenting challenges, and peer relationship concerns.
Safety and Crisis-Related Concerns: Thoughts of self-harm or suicide, impulse-control difficulties, and other concerns requiring compassionate, supportive therapeutic care.
Averie works to meet each client where they are while helping them develop skills that can support healthier relationships, stronger emotional regulation, and greater confidence.
Therapeutic Modalities I Use
Averie draws from multiple evidence-based and client-centered approaches to provide individualized care.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) can help clients process traumatic or distressing experiences and reduce the emotional impact associated with difficult memories.
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) supports children and adolescents in processing trauma while developing healthy coping and emotional-regulation skills.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps clients identify connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and learn to challenge unhelpful thinking patterns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) focuses on emotional regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, and healthy coping strategies.
Child-Centered Play Therapy gives children an age-appropriate way to express emotions, explore experiences, build confidence, and develop problem-solving and coping skills.
Averie may also incorporate motivational interviewing, person-centered therapy, solution-focused brief therapy, strength-based therapy, attachment-based approaches, sand play, and other therapeutic techniques based on each client's individual needs.
What Clients Say
"Averie created a space where I felt comfortable being myself and talking about things that were difficult to explain."
"My child has learned new ways to manage emotions and communicate what they are feeling. We have seen meaningful changes at home and at school."
"Therapy helped me understand that my thoughts and feelings don't have to control my actions. I have learned skills that I can actually use."
Client experiences vary, and individual results are different. Testimonials should only be published with appropriate client consent.
Ready to Start?
Your child or young adult does not have to navigate difficult experiences alone. Whether they are struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, behavioral concerns, family conflict, self-esteem, ADHD, autism, or another challenge, therapy can provide a safe place to begin working toward meaningful change.
Averie Mount, LPC, is here to help young clients feel understood, build healthy coping skills, strengthen emotional regulation, and develop the confidence and resilience they need to move forward.
Take the first step toward support and healing. Contact Open Arms Wellness today to schedule an appointment with Averie Mount, LPC.