Carey Alvord, LMFT

Carey Alvord is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California with 23 years of clinical experience. She specializes in attachment work, developmental trauma, and parent-child relationships, bringing focused expertise to families navigating complex relational patterns and histories of loss or trauma.

She works primarily with biological, foster, adoptive, and relative parents of children of all ages who are open to attachment-based parenting approaches. Carey also supports teens and adults who want to understand how childhood attachment experiences influence current relationships and emotional responses. Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, family conflict, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, and compassion fatigue.

Carey emphasizes creating an environment that balances openness with structure so thoughts and feelings can be explored without judgment. Her clinical approach integrates attachment-based therapy and trauma-focused methods with evidence-informed tools such as dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), mindfulness therapy, motivational interviewing, narrative therapy, solution-focused therapy, and systemic therapy. This combination allows her to tailor interventions to the needs of individuals and families, including work on adoption and foster care issues, attachment difficulties, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, dissociation, fertility concerns, and post-traumatic stress.

Carey provides thoughtful, attuned guidance aimed at helping people strengthen relationships, process traumatic experiences, and pursue more fulfilling connections. She supports clients through the often-challenging first steps toward change and sustained growth.