Ava Roush
Supportive counselor for parenting and family needs
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed in
- West Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Ava
Ava Roush is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on family and parenting concerns among many other areas. She helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy challenges, addictions, trauma, grief, sleep and eating concerns, and issues related to gender and identity.
Ava brings a warm, upbeat presence to sessions and aims to create a nonjudgmental space where people feel heard. She uses practical skills and clear conversation to help clients take small steps forward.
Background and approach
Ava draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She blends these methods to match each person’s needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. That can mean practicing new ways to cope, learning skills for emotional regulation, or changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Her training as an LPC (licensed professional counselor) and nine years of experience inform a straightforward, supportive style. She tailors communication and treatment planning to fit the individual. Sessions tend to focus on what matters most to the client and on realistic next steps.
Ava also works with concerns like caregiving stress, body image, chronic pain or illness, codependency, communication problems, and forgiveness. She has experience addressing domestic violence, trauma, and personality-related struggles. Those seeking help can expect a collaborative approach and practical strategies they can try between sessions.
People typically find Ava approachable and focused on progress. She encourages clients to name small goals and build skills over time. Her goal is to help individuals move toward healthier patterns at a pace that fits their life.
Evidence-based approaches for online family and parenting support
Ava uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that align with their values. ACT can be useful for stress, anxiety, and moving forward after difficult experiences.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and change patterns of thinking and behavior that cause distress. CBT often focuses on skill-building and practical exercises that clients can use between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit best based on goals and preferences. That could mean mixing ACT and CBT techniques or emphasizing skills training first and deeper processing later.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. These options allow people to schedule sessions around family life, work, and other obligations. The variety of formats also makes it easier to keep practicing skills and check in between live conversations.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- West Virginia
- Languages
- English
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