Ava Roush, LPC

Ava Roush is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in West Virginia with nine years of clinical experience. She focuses on concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, addictions, trauma and abuse, and LGBT-related concerns. Ava also works with sleep and eating difficulties, anger, bipolar features, and the strain that comes from major life changes.

Her background includes helping people who have faced physical, sexual, or emotional abuse. She uses straightforward, goal-focused methods in sessions and draws from multiple therapeutic approaches. Ava aims to help people learn practical skills they can use between sessions.

In therapy she applies Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), and client-centered methods. These approaches guide how she helps people handle difficult thoughts, improve communication, and build emotional regulation skills.

Sessions emphasize clear steps and real-world practice. Ava offers coaching on coping techniques, ways to manage strong emotions, and methods to address relationship patterns. She works with people on issues like caregiver stress, body image, codependency, control and dependent personality concerns, and fertility-related distress.

Her practice includes attention to complex presentations such as trauma, disruptive mood patterns, domestic violence histories, and chronic illness or pain. People who choose her can expect a direct, practical focus on what to try next and how to track progress.

How her approaches translate to online sessions