About Ava
Ava Weaver is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with 26 years of clinical experience. She draws on a long career in mental health services and education to offer straightforward support for people coping with anxiety and other concerns. Her style is practical and compassionate, aimed at helping clients find steps they can use right away.
Before shifting to full-time counseling, she worked in regional mental health centers and a psychiatric hospital.
Background and approach
She also taught special education in public schools and completed graduate training in counseling at Texas A&M. Those experiences shaped her work with adults and adolescents facing complex challenges. Her sessions focus on clear goals and usable tools.
She blends client-centered listening with cognitive-behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices. She uses those methods to help clients notice patterns, test new behaviors, and reduce symptoms that get in the way of daily life. Ava often helps people dealing with trauma, grief, mood concerns such as depression and bipolar symptoms, addiction, and relationship and parenting stresses.
She also addresses issues like self-esteem, anger, career concerns, and ADHD. Her approach is to match practical strategies to each person’s needs. Clients can expect a collaborative relationship in which progress is measured in real steps.
She offers feedback, homework when useful, and short-term skills work alongside longer exploration when needed. The goal is clearer thinking, better coping, and more manageable days.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Ava often uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness in her work. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and mood symptoms. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to calm the body and interrupt rumination, helping with stress, anger, and grief.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about current needs, goals, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they will try methods and adjust the plan based on what feels helpful and practical for each person.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face interaction and more in-depth work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are good for brief check-ins, coaching moments, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to use techniques in real time when challenges come up.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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