About Davina
Davina Kavanaugh is a licensed professional counselor in South Carolina with 18 years of experience. She works with people who are stressed, anxious, depressed, or struggling after traumatic events. She also helps those facing relationship and family tensions and people coping with addictive behaviors or low self-esteem.
She keeps sessions straightforward and focused on what matters to each person. Davina uses practical tools to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning.
How Davina works
Conversations explore patterns, values, and small steps clients can try between sessions. Her work covers a broad range of concerns such as parenting strain, compassion fatigue, body image, chronic illness and pain, and problems with attachment. She also addresses issues like abandonment fears, communication problems, codependency, and dissociation when these come up in individual work.
Davina draws on several approaches to fit each person’s needs, including acceptance and commitment ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive behavior strategies, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. She also brings an existential perspective when questions about meaning and purpose arise. Her style emphasizes collaboration and practical planning.
Clients can expect clear goals, gentle challenge, and tools to handle difficult moments. Davina aims to help people build resilience and make steady progress toward the life they want.
Davina lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Davina works with
The areas below are the ones Davina selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | South Carolina |
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Online support options
How Davina’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters most and taking small committed steps toward those values while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping skills. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist and client will talk about goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust over time. That collaborative process makes it easier to find what actually helps day to day.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which give flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction and practice of skills. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, coaching between sessions, or when writing helps someone organize their thoughts. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while fitting into a busy life.
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