April Stevens, LCSW, LICSW

April Stevens is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 21 years of experience and licensure in Utah and Alabama. She focuses on addictions, trauma and abuse, parenting, ADHD, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, stress, and other life changes.

She keeps work straightforward and practical. Sessions often include identifying unhelpful thoughts, learning skills for stress and emotion management, and practicing concrete behavior changes. She uses approaches such as Rational Emotive Behavioral techniques and cognitive-behavioral tools to help people notice and change thinking patterns that make life harder.

Her training began with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in social work with a mental health concentration. Early internships included child protective services and work with veterans in a PTSD and substance use program. That background informs work with trauma, addiction recovery, and parenting concerns.

She has experience helping people at different life stages, from young children’s caregivers through older adults facing end-of-life stressors. Common topics she addresses include co-parenting and divorce stress, substance use and recovery, attachment and abandonment concerns, caregiver strain, and managing chronic illness or pain.

In sessions she might teach disputing negative self-talk, reframing thoughts, journal exercises, motivational interviewing techniques, or relationship skills drawn from the Gottman approach. She also consults with outside agencies when cases need coordination. The practice aims to give practical tools people can use between sessions.

To start, clients follow the site pathway to match and schedule an initial appointment. April asks about goals and current stressors so she can suggest straightforward strategies and next steps.

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