Chelsey Fouts

Chelsey Fouts is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in California (CA LCSW 75512) with six years of clinical experience. She emphasizes the therapeutic connection, aiming to help people feel heard, understood, and valued within the therapeutic relationship.

Her approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and supporting clients to build a stronger sense of worth. She teaches practical skills to manage daily stressors and helps clients understand how past experiences influence current beliefs and behaviors. Chelsey draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Solution-Focused methods, and psychodynamic approaches.

Recent work has concentrated on processing trauma with youth, particularly childhood abuse, and she has experience treating anxiety, depression, and PTSD with both young people and adults. She practices from a non-religious perspective and provides therapy as a female clinician.

Chelsey offers a warm, encouraging, strengths-based style while providing structure and guidance to explore new ways of addressing challenges. She works collaboratively with clients to set goals, monitors progress, and checks in regularly to assess change.

In an initial session she spends time learning what led someone to seek therapy and how they have been coping, asking about symptoms, stressors, interests, and relationships with the aim of establishing a trusting connection.