About Ava
Ava Weaver is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 26 years of clinical work in Texas. She draws on long experience to help people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, and life transitions. Her approach is practical and steady, focused on clear steps people can use between sessions.
She emphasizes listening first and tailoring work to each person's needs. Sessions mix talking, skill practice, and straightforward feedback. Ava uses cognitive and mindfulness tools to reduce symptoms and build coping skills over time.
Background and approach
Ava has worked across community mental health and hospital settings and with school systems earlier in her career. That variety shaped a flexible style that fits people with complex histories and overlapping concerns. Her background includes work with trauma, addiction, mood disorders, and relationship stress.
In the room she balances problem solving with attention to emotion. Clients practice concrete strategies such as thought reframing, grounding, and emotional regulation. She also uses reflective discussion to help people notice patterns that keep problems repeating.
People come to her for a mix of short-term goals and deeper change. Typical focuses include managing panic and phobias, navigating grief, reducing stress, and improving self-esteem. She helps clients set realistic steps and track progress between visits.
How therapeutic approaches and online care work together
Ava commonly draws on client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and mindfulness approaches. Client-centered work focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship so people can set goals that matter to them. CBT looks at thought patterns and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and phobias. Mindfulness therapy helps people notice their thoughts and bodily reactions without getting swept up in them, which can reduce reactivity and improve stress management.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk through options with the person, try techniques, and adjust methods based on how well they match goals and preferences. That process helps find the mix of tools that fits a person's life and challenges.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quicker check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, caregiving, or other obligations while keeping the focus on progress and skill building.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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