- Mindfulness based
- CBT informed
- Trauma aware
About Benjamin
Benjamin Nielson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Utah. He brings six years of clinical practice to sessions and draws on broader experience from work with community programs, hospitals, and hospice services.
He uses clear, practical methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and trauma. Sessions focus on what is happening now and on concrete steps a person can take between meetings. He emphasizes compassion, respect, and warmth in the therapeutic relationship.
Benjamin’s background includes program work on the Navajo Nation where he helped create experiential programs for at-risk youth. That work influenced his approach to multicultural sensitivity, trauma-informed care, and hands-on interventions. He later worked as a medical social worker providing resource connections and crisis counseling in hospital and homecare settings.
In sessions he adapts methods to match the situation. He commonly draws from mindfulness, motivational interviewing, trauma-focused therapy, attachment-based work, emotionally-focused approaches, and cognitive behavioral therapy. The focus is on practical tools people can use to cope with life changes and difficult emotions.
He also helps people facing caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, codependency, and struggles with guilt or shame. Benjamin frames change as something that takes strength and steady effort, and he aims to support clients through that process.
He uses clear, practical methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and trauma. Sessions focus on what is happening now and on concrete steps a person can take between meetings. He emphasizes compassion, respect, and warmth in the therapeutic relationship.
Benjamin’s background includes program work on the Navajo Nation where he helped create experiential programs for at-risk youth. That work influenced his approach to multicultural sensitivity, trauma-informed care, and hands-on interventions. He later worked as a medical social worker providing resource connections and crisis counseling in hospital and homecare settings.
In sessions he adapts methods to match the situation. He commonly draws from mindfulness, motivational interviewing, trauma-focused therapy, attachment-based work, emotionally-focused approaches, and cognitive behavioral therapy. The focus is on practical tools people can use to cope with life changes and difficult emotions.
He also helps people facing caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, codependency, and struggles with guilt or shame. Benjamin frames change as something that takes strength and steady effort, and he aims to support clients through that process.
This summary is based on the profile information listed on BetterHelp.