Davina Kavanaugh, LPC

Davina Kavanaugh is a licensed professional counselor with 18 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and the fallout from trauma. She speaks plainly and listens closely so parents and individuals can talk through immediate problems and decide on next steps. Her style aims to be steady and practical, offering tools that can be used between sessions.

In session she focuses on what matters now: reducing overwhelming feelings, improving communication, and building steady coping skills. She uses approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and ACT to clarify values and take workable action. Client-centered work guides the pace so people feel heard as they try things that feel hard.

Davina has supported people through life transitions, parenting stress, addiction concerns, and chronic illness. She also helps address issues such as attachment struggles, codependency, body image, and dissociation. Her experience includes helping with compassion fatigue and burnout for those in demanding roles.

Her practice blends practical skill-building with conversations about meaning and priorities. That can look like learning new ways to respond in relationships, practicing emotion regulation skills, or setting small goals that add up over weeks.

Based in South Carolina, Davina works in English and offers several ways to connect. She aims to meet people where they are and to help them find manageable steps toward steadier days.

How CBT, ACT, and Client-Centered Work Online

Davina draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and change thinking patterns that increase anxiety or low mood. CBT focuses on practical skills and small experiments to test new ways of thinking and behaving, which can be practiced between sessions.

She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters most and take actions that match those values. ACT often helps when someone wants to stop fighting painful feelings and start building a meaningful routine. Client-centered therapy shapes how she listens and responds, letting the client set the pace and priorities while the therapist reflects and supports.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Davina will discuss options and try methods that fit a person's goals and preferences. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that blends skills practice, values-based work, and supportive conversation.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skills practice, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, chat can be a short check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and changing routines.