Davina Kavanaugh, LPC

Davina Kavanaugh is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in South Carolina with 18 years of experience helping people navigate stressful and painful life changes. She focuses on practical steps people can use to feel steadier, think more clearly, and manage intense emotions. Many clients come for help with anxiety, depression, relationship strain, or the pressures of parenting and work.

Davina aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk through what matters most to them. She listens for values and goals, then helps clients pick small, workable changes to try between sessions. Conversations are straightforward and grounded in everyday life rather than clinical jargon.

Her work covers a wide range of difficulties, including trauma and abuse recovery, compassion fatigue, addiction concerns, and coping with life changes such as midlife transitions. She also addresses issues like abandonment, attachment concerns, body image, chronic illness or pain, codependency, and communication problems.

Davina draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Existential Therapy to match what a person needs in the room. That means mixing practical skills with deeper reflection so people build both coping tools and clearer direction.

She helps people set realistic goals, practice new habits, and notice what’s working. Sessions emphasize usable strategies for managing distress and improving day-to-day functioning. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules a session based on the listed steps.

How these therapies translate to online sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what matters to them and then take small steps toward those values while accepting difficult thoughts or feelings. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood. It tends to involve concrete exercises and homework between sessions. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a warm, nonjudgmental listening stance so people can explore their concerns at their own pace and build self-understanding.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Davina will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That could mean trying skill-based CBT tools for immediate symptom relief, blending ACT ideas to clarify values, or using client-centered listening to process difficult experiences. The plan is adjusted as progress is made.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know which formats are offered. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by removing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, and letting people join from a quieter location that suits them. Many people find online work helps them maintain consistency and practice skills in day-to-day settings, while the therapist and client adapt the approach to practical needs.