About Brian
Brian Davis is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings 12 years of therapy experience to sessions. He speaks plainly and listens carefully to help people make sense of hard feelings. He focuses on practical steps so clients can begin to feel steadier and more able to cope with daily life.
He helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and addictions. He also supports those facing grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy questions, and concerns about body image and eating or sleeping.
Background and approach
He works with issues like ADHD, compassion fatigue, parenting strain, and major life changes. Brian uses approaches that encourage clear thinking and useful habits. He draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and change them.
He uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. Meditation and mindfulness practices appear in sessions when they help people notice the present moment and reduce reactivity. Motivational Interviewing is used when someone wants to make a change but feels stuck or unsure about next steps.
He also brings existential ideas to help people find meaning during life transitions. Sessions focus on what a person needs now and on small, practical steps they can try between meetings. He aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk through problems and test new approaches.
Brian practices in Pennsylvania as an LCSW and conducts therapy in English.
Approach and online formats that fit your life
Brian often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and develop new patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and habit changes because it focuses on practical thinking and behavior shifts.He also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. DBT techniques can help when emotions feel overwhelming or when relationships are strained.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Brian will discuss goals, try different strategies, and adjust the plan based on what helps. Decisions about methods are made together, so people can see what fits their needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let you have face-to-face conversation with nonverbal cues. Phone sessions work well if bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging suit short check-ins, quick skill practice, or times when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules while focusing on practical 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