Brian Davis
Calm, practical help for everyday struggles
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Brian
Brian Davis is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who makes a calm, straightforward space for people who are worried and looking for help. He writes and talks plainly, so parents can quickly see whether his style feels right. Brian has 12 years of clinical experience and practices from Pennsylvania, offering practical talk therapy and tools that aim to reduce day-to-day strain.
He focuses on common problems that wear people down.
Background and approach
These include stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma, along with challenges like grief, addiction, sleep and eating issues, and ADHD. He also addresses relationship strains, intimacy-related concerns, parenting stresses, career pressures, and compassion fatigue. Brian blends clear, skills-based methods with reflective work.
He uses approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT - and Dialectical Behavior Therapy - DBT - alongside mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and existential ideas. Sessions typically include straightforward strategies, skill practice, and time to talk about meaning and values. He aims to help people identify patterns that cause pain and try small, manageable changes.
Brian encourages practical steps that can improve daily functioning and mood. He frames therapy as a collaborative process where clients set goals and try experiments between sessions. Brian supports sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Sessions sit within a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. He provides services in English and works from Pennsylvania as an LCSW (PA LCSW CW020640).
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions that fit daily life
Brian uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT breaks problems into clear parts and gives simple exercises to practice between sessions.He also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills for people who need tools to manage intense emotions and improve coping. DBT emphasizes grounding skills, emotion regulation, and clearer communication in stressful moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Brian treats therapy as a collaboration and will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels useful. Together the client and therapist try strategies and adjust the plan when needed.
Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging helps people fit therapy into busy schedules. These formats let clients choose shorter check-ins or longer talk sessions from home or work. That flexibility supports steady progress and makes follow-up between sessions easier through messaging when helpful.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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