Clinical Interests and Specialty Areas
As a Black man and a lifelong artist, Everett Dailey has examined how racial identity and professional identity shape one another, and that awareness informs his work with students who are figuring out where they belong and what they want their lives to look like. He draws on person-centered therapy, narrative therapy, feminist theory, and cognitive behavioral therapy to work with depression, anxiety, identity development, significant life transitions, and isolation. Everett pays attention to the stories students carry about themselves and to the larger systems shaping them, while also offering practical tools for managing stress and low mood. His work is strengths-based, and he hopes to offer a space that feels easy to walk into, where students set the pace and never have to perform. Everett especially enjoys working with students of color, students in the arts, men who are new to therapy, and anyone in the middle of a significant career or life change.
About the Staff Member
Everett is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor trainee currently pursuing his master's degree in counseling at LMU. He received his bachelor's degree in theatre arts from Pepperdine University and an MFA in graphic design from ArtCenter College of Design, and he spent years working as an actor and a designer before finding his way to mental health. Therapy changed the course of his life when he was a student himself, first through individual work and later through a men's group, and that experience is what brought him to this field. Outside of the office, Everett's interests include music, filmmaking, going to the movies, video games, and spending time with his Boxer puppy, Onyx.
Preferred Pronouns: he/him/his