About Treva
Dr. Treva Sexton is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Georgia with eight years of experience. She focuses on helping people improve communication and resolve conflicts that get in the way of healthier relationships and personal wellbeing.
She works with concerns such as stress, anxiety, addictions, self-esteem, career issues, and challenges around intimacy and relationships. Her approach is straightforward and practical. Sessions look at the barriers that keep someone from feeling satisfied, then map small, doable steps toward change.
Background and approach
She uses conversational techniques and goal-focused work to help people clarify what they want and how to get there. Dr. Sexton also supports people dealing with parenting and family tensions, adoption and foster care issues, blended family challenges, and fatherhood concerns.
She addresses sensitive areas such as gender dysphoria, LGBT matters, BDSM and alternative sex culture, sexual communication problems, and infidelity with directness and respect. Clinical tools she draws on include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior skills, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. Those methods are used to build coping skills, manage mood and impulsivity, and improve communication patterns.
People who come to her often want practical help for life changes, bipolar mood management, ADHD, anger, trauma, or substance-related concerns. Dr. Sexton aims to create an accepting space where individuals feel heard and can take concrete steps forward.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience. It helps people feel heard and works well for relationship and identity issues by centering the client's goals and values.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches practical skills to change them. It is useful for anxiety, stress, mood changes, and many day-to-day problems because it gives clear tools to try between sessions.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills. It can help with impulsivity, anger, and intense emotions by teaching specific coping strategies.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs and goals. She draws from different approaches and adapts them based on what a client finds most helpful.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter updates, ongoing coaching, or work between meetings. These formats increase flexibility and make it simpler to keep momentum on goals.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English