Ava Weaver

Ava Weaver is a Licensed Professional Counselor with more than 26 years of clinical experience in Texas. She began her career in education and moved into mental health, working in regional mental health centers and a psychiatric hospital setting. Her background includes school-based special education teaching and long-term clinical work with adults and adolescents.

She offers a practical, interactive style that focuses on finding workable solutions. Sessions emphasize clear feedback and step-by-step strategies to manage stress, anger, anxiety, mood changes, and the effects of trauma. She helps people identify strengths and build skills they can use between sessions.

Ava uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person’s needs. She draws on client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the client, cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and dialectical behavior strategies for emotion regulation. Mindfulness and some Jungian ideas may be woven in when they fit the work.

Her experience includes work in psychiatric hospital settings and regional mental health authorities, plus training related to trauma-focused methods. She describes herself as collaborative and straightforward, offering support while guiding practical change.

People reach out to her for a wide range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, parenting stress, bipolar disorder, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, ADHD, and anger. Her previous roles in schools and clinical settings inform a flexible approach to addressing life transitions and caregiving challenges.

How her approaches guide online work

Ava commonly uses client-centered approaches and cognitive behavioral techniques in her practice. Client-centered work focuses on listening and following what matters most to the person, helping them set goals and choose directions that feel right. Cognitive behavioral techniques look at thought and behavior patterns and teach practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood swings, and limit impulsive reactions.

She also employs elements of dialectical behavior therapy when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are goals. DBT-based skills teach ways to reduce reactivity, tolerate strong feelings without acting on them, and improve interpersonal interactions. Together these methods give concrete tools for handling anger, stress, trauma reactions, and relationship strain.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try methods that seem likely to help. Adjustments are made along the way based on what works and what the client notices changing.

Session formats are not specified in this biography, so confirm available online options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, use short check-ins when time is tight, or avoid travel time. Licensed professionals can tailor pacing and homework to match daily life, helping people practice new skills between meetings.