About Avis
Avis Moorehead is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Pennsylvania. She has 11 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and life changes. Her style is direct and compassionate, with an emphasis on practical steps people can use between sessions.
She uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs rather than one fixed method. Sessions often focus on clear goals, skill-building, and routines that make day-to-day life easier.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how identity and culture shape stress and coping. Avis gives extra attention to concerns such as trauma and post-traumatic stress, obsessive-compulsive patterns, compassion fatigue, and issues common to first responders. She also supports people dealing with addictions, sleep problems, anger, and career stress.
Her work includes helping with forgiveness, guilt and shame, and isolation or loneliness. Conversations are client-centered and practical. Clients can expect a mix of talking, skill practice, and planning for small steps that build over time.
She draws on approaches like cognitive methods, acceptance strategies, and trauma-focused work when those fit the person’s needs. Services are offered in English and provided through several session formats. Avis describes herself as collaborative and respectful, aiming to help people feel steadier and better equipped to handle daily challenges.
How her approaches work in online therapy
Avis commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in session. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and learning to accept difficult thoughts while acting in ways that matter most. It can help when worry, avoidance, or life transitions get in the way of daily goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thinking and practical behavior changes. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and obsessive-compulsive patterns.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try different strategies, and adjust the plan as needs and preferences become clearer. That way the work stays practical and tailored rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls are useful for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in or when bandwidth is limited. Chat and messaging allow quick check-ins, homework prompts, or ongoing support between calls. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English