About Aviva
Aviva Kovacs helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. She meets people who feel stuck, lonely, or overwhelmed by patterns in their relationships. She listens without judgement and gives clear, practical steps to try right away.
Aviva brings 23 years of social work experience to sessions and holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, LCSW, plus LCSW-C in Maryland. She adapts her approach to fit short-term or longer-term needs, offering focused strategies when people want quick relief and deeper work when they need it.
Background and approach
Her practice emphasizes plain talk and useful tools. Clients often leave sessions with a small plan to try between meetings. She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage symptoms and improve daily functioning.
Aviva pays attention to how past experiences shape current relationships. She helps people make sense of attachment wounds, abandonment fears, codependency, and communication problems. She also supports those coping with caregiver stress, fatherhood issues, divorce, infidelity, and family-of-origin conflicts.
Sessions are available in English and offered through a variety of online formats. Cost varies by location and is billed through a cancellable subscription. To begin, a person selects Start Therapy, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules according to therapist availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Aviva uses a few core, evidence-based techniques to guide sessions. Brief, solution-focused work zeroes in on immediate problems and offers concrete steps to reduce distress and improve functioning. This approach suits people who want quick, practical changes. Work that addresses trauma focuses on helping a person understand how past events affect present feelings and relationships. It aims to reduce overwhelming reactions and increase a sense of control over day-to-day life.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and what feels comfortable. Together they decide whether shorter-term strategies or deeper, longer-term work is the better path forward and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls let people read facial expressions and have a more traditional session. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick updates, brief reflections, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- New York, Maryland, New Jersey
- Languages
- English