Davina Kavanaugh , LPC

Davina Kavanaugh is a licensed professional counselor in South Carolina with 18 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, parenting strain, and trauma. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier and more in control. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at making hard conversations easier to manage.

She helps people sort through relationship and family conflict by focusing on clear communication and realistic next steps. For parenting concerns she supports parents who feel overwhelmed or burned out, and for trauma she works at a pace the person can handle. She also addresses addictions, low self-esteem, depression, and compassion fatigue with skills-based tools.

Davina blends several therapy approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Mindfulness and acceptance strategies are used to reduce avoidance and build willingness to face difficult feelings.

Her work is collaborative. She listens first, then suggests small experiments and practical exercises to try between sessions. Clients will find concrete tools for coping with life changes, chronic health challenges, and difficulties with attachment or boundaries.

Davina brings nearly two decades of practice to each meeting while keeping the focus on the person in front of her. She aims to create space for healing, clearer choices, and better day-to-day functioning.

Approaches that translate well to online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when emotions are difficult. It is useful for anxiety, chronic stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, targets unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with practical exercises and homework to create change in daily life. It often helps with depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the person sets the pace and topics for sessions. This approach supports self-exploration and emotional processing.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, then try methods that fit those needs. Progress is tracked together and adjustments are made when something isn't helping.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video isn't practical, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, childcare, or medical needs, and let people pick the format that feels most manageable for symptoms, bandwidth, or comfort with being on camera.