About Kevin
Kevin McGarvey is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with five years of clinical experience. He has worked in partial hospital programs and outpatient settings, helping people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, mood concerns, and personality-related difficulties. Kevin aims to treat each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion while tailoring conversations and plans to individual needs.
He approaches counseling from a belief that clients are the experts in their own lives.
Background and approach
Diagnosis matters less than understanding what contributes to how someone feels. Sessions focus on practical steps to make daily stressors easier to manage and on clarifying what a person wants to change. Kevin uses a relaxed, conversational style and spends time learning about a person’s background and the problems that brought them to therapy.
He emphasizes listening closely to the client’s perspective so interventions match real-life concerns. That style is meant to help people feel seen and understood while they work toward clearer goals. In past roles he worked with people who had significant mental health needs in more intensive settings.
That experience informs his ability to support people dealing with intense emotions, mood swings, addiction concerns, sleep problems, or relationship difficulties. He also has experience addressing phobias, obsessions and compulsions, panic, and social anxiety. Kevin encourages questions before starting and aims to make the first steps straightforward.
He tailors the pace and focus of work to each person’s goals and life context.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding the person’s own viewpoint and building a trusting working relationship; it helps when people want empathetic listening and space to make their own decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches concrete strategies for reducing anxiety, panic, phobias, and mood symptoms. These methods can be used together to address both immediate symptoms and longer-term patterns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals, try different techniques, and adjust plans based on what helps most. That means the first sessions are often about finding the best fit rather than committing to a single method right away.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face interaction and practicing skills together. Phone sessions can be easier if bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to use a camera. Live chat and text messages work well for quick check-ins, showing brief exercises, or staying connected between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules and to maintain consistent progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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