About Davina
Davina Kavanaugh is a licensed professional counselor with 18 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, and trauma. She writes clearly and listens closely to what people bring into sessions. Her style is practical and steady, aimed at reducing overwhelm and restoring everyday function.
Clients typically work on clear goals together. That might mean building skills to manage anxiety, sorting out communication problems, or finding ways to move past painful experiences.
Background and approach
She also helps people facing parenting strain, addictions, low self-esteem, and major life changes. Davina uses a mix of well-known therapeutic approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful patterns.
She also uses acceptance-based and mindfulness tools to help people live with difficult feelings without getting stuck. Her sessions focus on what someone can do between meetings. That includes short exercises, behavior experiments, and simple practices to lower distress.
She encourages practical steps that fit into daily life rather than long lists of tasks. She practices in South Carolina and sees people in English. When someone starts, she works with them to set realistic, measurable steps and checks progress over time.
The aim is steady forward movement and increased confidence in handling life’s challenges.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Davina uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) as core parts of her online work. ACT focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting controlled by them, so they can act in ways that match their values. CBT breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical steps to change patterns that feed anxiety and low mood.She approaches online care collaboratively. During the first few sessions she and the client review goals, try an approach, and adjust based on what helps. The idea is to find methods that fit the person’s needs, goals, and day-to-day life rather than following a fixed plan.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text messaging can be used for shorter check-ins, skill practice, or when someone prefers writing. These options make scheduling more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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