Leticia Avery

Leticia Avery is a bilingual Licensed Clinical Social Worker-Supervisor (LCSW-S) in Texas and Colorado with more than 13 years of clinical social work experience. She supports children, adolescents, adults, and families navigating chronic illness, medical trauma, trauma, major life transitions, fertility and pregnancy, and the transition to parenthood.

As a Latina and Spanish-speaking therapist, Leticia brings a culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and social justice-oriented perspective to her work. She recognizes that mental health is shaped not only by our individual experiences, but also by our culture, identity, relationships, communities, and the systems around us.

For more than 15 years, Leticia has advocated alongside individuals and families affected by sickle cell disease. Together with her professional background in pediatric hematology, this experience has shaped a particular passion for supporting people navigating chronic illness, medical trauma, and complex healthcare systems.

Whether you are seeking support for yourself, your child, or your family, Leticia provides a warm and collaborative space where your experiences are honored and you don't have to separate your mental health from the other parts of your life.

My Approach

Leticia believes healing and advocacy are deeply connected. Therapy can be a place to process difficult experiences, recognize your strengths, strengthen your voice, and develop tools for navigating life's challenges.

Her therapeutic style is warm, collaborative, strengths-based, and culturally responsive. She integrates Solution-Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), mindfulness-based practices, trauma-informed care, play therapy principles, and developmentally appropriate interventions based on each client's needs.

Her work is also informed by training in Chicano/a/x Liberation Psychology, which considers how culture, identity, history, community, and social conditions can influence mental health and well-being.

Areas Leticia supports include:

• Sickle cell disease, chronic illness, and chronic pain

• Healthcare-related stress and medical trauma

• Trauma, grief, loss, and major life transitions

• Fertility, pregnancy, and the transition to parenthood

• Children and adolescents experiencing emotional or behavioral challenges

• Parents and caregivers navigating a child's medical or mental health needs

• Immigrant youth and families experiencing immigration-related stress

• Cultural identity and experiences of marginalization or oppression

• Family stress and relationship challenges

• Therapeutic Yoga

Leticia is completing the requirements to become a Registered Play Therapist (RPT), anticipated in early 2027, under the consultation of Alyssa Cedillo, LPC-S, RPT-S. Her play therapy training provides developmentally appropriate and expressive ways to connect with children while collaborating with parents and caregivers throughout the therapeutic process.

Sickle Cell, Chronic Illness & Medical Trauma

Living with a chronic medical condition — or caring for someone who does — can affect far more than physical health. Medical appointments, pain, uncertainty, caregiving responsibilities, disruptions to school or work, financial stress, and navigating healthcare can affect emotional well-being and family life.

Leticia's experience within the sickle cell community and pediatric hematology gives her insight into these challenges, including the exhaustion that can come from repeatedly explaining your needs, locating resources, coordinating care, and advocating to be heard.

In therapy, Leticia offers space to process the emotional impact of these experiences while supporting resilience, self-advocacy, connection, and a sense of identity beyond illness or caregiving.

Social Justice & Culturally Responsive Therapy

Leticia's work with Chicanx, BIPOC, immigrant, and historically marginalized communities informs her understanding of the ways social and systemic experiences can intersect with mental health.

Her therapeutic space welcomes conversations about race, culture, identity, immigration, language, healthcare access, oppression, and the social and political realities affecting a client's life. These experiences do not need to be minimized or separated from the healing process.

As a bilingual therapist, Leticia offers therapy in English and Spanish, giving clients the opportunity to communicate in the language that feels most comfortable and authentic to them.

Background & Experience

Leticia's career spans mental health, healthcare, advocacy, and community-based services.

Since 2016, she has served as a Pediatric Hematology Social Worker at UT Health San Antonio, supporting children and families affected by chronic blood disorders through psychosocial assessment, individual and family support, medical case management, advocacy, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Her professional background also includes clinical work with unaccompanied undocumented minors, early childhood intervention services, immigrant and refugee youth, and research and field education support at the Worden School of Social Service.

Throughout her career, Leticia has facilitated therapeutic groups, supervised MSW interns, provided professional and community trainings, and collaborated with physicians, healthcare professionals, educators, social workers, and community organizations. She has also presented through pediatric grand rounds, bioethics committees, community workshops, professional trainings, and national conferences.

Her professional development includes training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Solution-Focused Therapy, play therapy, Chicano/a/x Liberation Psychology, trauma-informed care, financial social work, mindfulness, and therapeutic yoga. Leticia is also a 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher and incorporates principles of mindfulness and mind-body awareness when appropriate.

Start Your Healing Journey

You deserve a therapeutic space where the different parts of your experience can be understood together.

Leticia offers compassionate, culturally responsive therapy for children, adults, and families in Texas, Florida, & Colorado, with services available in English and Spanish.

If you're looking for a bilingual therapist with experience in sickle cell disease, chronic illness, medical trauma, pediatric hematology, trauma, fertility and pregnancy, children and families, and culturally responsive mental health care, we invite you to connect with Leticia and learn whether she may be the right fit for you or your family.

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