About Avis
Avis Moorehead is a licensed clinical social worker with 11 years of experience in Pennsylvania. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, or life changes. Avis aims to create a calm, respectful space where practical steps come first.
Her work often addresses trauma and abuse, obsessive-compulsive patterns, and post-traumatic stress. She also supports people dealing with addictions, sleep problems, anger, and low self-esteem. Avis pays attention to multicultural concerns and compassion fatigue as part of the whole picture.
How Avis works
Avis uses approaches that help people connect values to daily actions and build coping skills. She draws on methods that teach skills for emotion regulation and change unhelpful thinking. She also offers therapy that can target traumatic memories when needed.
Sessions normally focus on clear goals and small, manageable steps. Clients can expect to practice tools between meetings and track progress over time. The tone in sessions is direct but warm, with respect for each person’s background and experience.
Outside of core concerns she often helps people facing career strain, isolation, forgiveness struggles, hoarding, seasonal mood shifts, or traumatic brain injury. Her practice speaks to people who want straightforward guidance and steady support while they work toward change.
Avis lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Avis works with
The areas below are the ones Avis selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Avis commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking action toward them, which can help with anxiety, low mood, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) works on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors, which can reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive patterns. She also draws on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for targeting traumatic memories when appropriate. EMDR is a structured approach that can help people process and reduce distress linked to specific traumatic events. Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and the problem at hand to decide which methods to use. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as progress is reviewed. Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversation. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits the day. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer written exchanges or need brief, ongoing support between longer sessions.Start online instead of waiting
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