Ava Roush

Ava Roush is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and major life transitions. She also supports people dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, trauma and abuse, addiction, and issues related to LGBT identity. Her tone is warm and encouraging, and she aims to make reaching out feel like a first workable step.

Ava keeps sessions practical and straightforward. She uses a mix of approaches to suit each person - drawing from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and client-centered work. That means sessions often focus on values, skill-building, and small changes people can try between meetings.

Her style is upbeat and nonjudgmental. Ava prioritizes listening first and then tailoring a plan to the person in front of her. She frames therapy as a collaborative process where goals and methods get adjusted as progress is made.

Across nine years of practice she has supported people facing a wide range of challenges, including body image concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, and compassion fatigue. She also works with people navigating gender dysphoria, fertility questions, and eating or sleep-related problems.

Ava is based in West Virginia and holds a WV LPC credential. She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients; ask about specific scheduling and session formats when you reach out. If you're considering therapy to cope with life changes, she offers a steady, skills-focused approach to help you move forward.

How Ava’s Approaches Translate to Online Work

Ava draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in ways that translate well to remote sessions. ACT focuses on clarifying personal values and taking steps that match those values, which can help when facing big life changes or chronic stress. CBT breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers skills to change unhelpful patterns, often through exercises and homework between sessions.

Finding the best approach is a team effort. Ava will discuss which methods feel most useful and adapt them to each person's goals and preferences. Over time the plan can shift based on what is helping and what is not, so therapy stays practical and focused on daily life improvements.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Licensed professionals can guide skill practice, breathing or grounding exercises, and values-based goals in ways that fit a client's routine, helping people apply new strategies between appointments.