About LaVina
LaVina Weaver is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life transitions. She also supports those coping with relationship strain, trauma and abuse, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem concerns, career questions, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue. Her style is warm, patient, and accepting.
She listens closely and invites clients to take part in an interactive process. Sessions aim to be practical and focused on small, useful changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
LaVina uses a mix of cognitive behavioral ideas and psychodynamic perspective to tailor work to each person. She also draws on mindfulness practices, narrative methods, and motivational interviewing to help people notice patterns, shift unhelpful thinking, and build more effective habits. She has twenty years of experience in a variety of settings.
That background informs how she guides people through grief, cultural concerns, hospice and end-of-life questions, and seasonal affective disorder. Her experience includes supporting spiritual concerns as they arise in therapy. LaVina encourages honest conversation about goals and what feels workable.
She helps people break issues into manageable steps and supports them as they try new ways of coping. If someone wants steady, compassionate guidance through change, she offers that steady presence.
Approaches for online care and flexible support
LaVina often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors to change mood and stress. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping with life changes.She also draws on Mindfulness Therapy to help people notice their moment-to-moment experience and reduce reactivity. Mindfulness practices can be short and easy to use between sessions to manage stress or sleep difficulty.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. Adjustments are made over time so the work feels useful and manageable.
Online work is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging lets people share thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue care when schedules or locations change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Multicultural concerns
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English