Carey Alvord

Carey Alvord, LMFT, is a California-licensed therapist with 23 years of clinical experience focused on attachment and parent-child relationships. She works with biological, foster, adoptive, and relative parents across the lifespan, as well as with teens and adults who want to better understand how early loss and developmental trauma shape current patterns. Her specialties include stress, anxiety, family concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting, and compassion fatigue, with additional attention to adoption and foster care, attachment issues, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and young adult and women’s issues.

Her practice emphasizes an open yet structured therapeutic environment where thoughts and feelings can be explored without judgment. Carey draws on Attachment-Based Therapy alongside evidence-informed methods such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy to address relational patterns and practical coping skills. She aims to help clients and families identify patterns, build skills for managing strong emotions, and create more fulfilling connections.

Carey tailors her work to the specific needs of each family or individual, inviting collaboration around goals related to parenting, attachment repair, trauma processing, and daily stress management. She frames change as a gradual process and supports clients in taking the steps they choose toward clearer relationships and greater emotional balance.