About Brian
Brian Davis is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Pennsylvania with 12 years of therapy experience. He works with people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, addiction, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and related concerns. He aims to create a calm, judgment-free space where feelings are heard and taken seriously.
He helps clients name and make sense of their emotions. Sessions focus on practical steps people can use between meetings. He uses straightforward language and a steady approach to guide conversations about hard topics like abandonment, attachment, body image, and intimacy-related concerns.
How Brian works
Brian draws on several therapy styles to tailor care to each person. He emphasizes skills that help with stress, sleeping problems, anger, and coping with life changes. He also addresses communication problems, codependency, and challenges tied to adoption or foster care.
His work includes support for people dealing with compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, and career or parenting strain. He attends to co-occurring issues and helps people balance multiple pressures without minimizing any single struggle. Brian believes therapy is collaborative.
He invites clients to try new perspectives and small experiments in life. The goal is clearer direction and more usable tools, not quick fixes. He encourages people to move at their own pace while building toward more stability and self-understanding.
Brian lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Brian works with
The areas below are the ones Brian selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
Online approaches that teach skills and meaning
Brian uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) in ways that are easy to use online. CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, or sleep problems. DBT emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication skills for intense feelings and relationship stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Brian will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and choose or combine methods that fit. That collaborative process helps match tools to what is most important to the client right now.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video allows face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can work for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options aim to make regular therapy easier to fit into a busy life.
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