About Aviva
Aviva Kovacs helps people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship pain, trauma, low self-esteem, or compassion fatigue. She describes common struggles like physical symptoms tied to worry, feeling lonely, or getting stuck in repeating relationship patterns. Aviva uses practical suggestions and down-to-earth guidance to make the first sessions feel useful and manageable.
She brings 23 years of clinical experience and a steady, compassionate manner to her work. Aviva can offer both shorter-term, solution-focused work and longer-term therapy depending on what a person needs.
How Aviva works
She aims to give concrete tools early on so people feel relief and have something to try between sessions. Aviva focuses on issues connected to attachment and abandonment, caregiver stress, codependency, commitment and communication problems, dissociation, and the impacts of family of origin. She also helps people facing separation, infidelity, fatherhood concerns, and loneliness.
Those areas often surface alongside anxiety, depression, or trauma history. Her approach is straightforward and nonjudgmental. She offers ideas that make sense in everyday life and helps people test them out.
The goal is to move from feeling burdened or stuck toward clearer choices and greater resilience. Aviva is licensed in New York and Maryland as indicated by her credentials LCSW, MD, LCSW-C. She practices in Maryland and conducts sessions in English.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling sessions that fit a person’s availability.
What Aviva works with
The areas below are the ones Aviva selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, MD, LCSW-C |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 23 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maryland |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and online sessions
Aviva uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person's needs. One common approach focuses on practical symptom relief and coping skills so people feel less overwhelmed quickly; she introduces concrete tools to reduce anxiety and manage stress. Another approach addresses trauma and its aftereffects by helping people make sense of painful memories and learn ways to tolerate strong feelings without getting stuck.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Aviva collaborates with each person to identify goals, try methods, and adjust the plan as needed. She combines short-term, solution-focused steps with longer-term exploration when that better matches a person's goals and pace.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation while phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, quick coping ideas, or ongoing support between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep consistent momentum toward change.
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