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Hello and welcome! My name is Amey Davis and I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Over time, I have had the honor of being a part of growth and healing with a variety of clients. While my licensure type might imply I work solely with couples or families, I have a great deal of experience working with individual clients, as well. My hope is to provide a comfortable and compassionate environment that allows clients to explore and communicate their emotions in a way that will improve their life and their relationships.
My approach
My therapeutic approach leans towards Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT, DBT), but I also incorporate many other frameworks that can be helpful. I seek to know and understand what every client is going through and work together to create a plan that reveals results. I would say my expertise lies in helping people understand their emotions in order to respond to them and communicate with them in a healthy way.
My focus
Life is constantly changing and challenging us as we move through it. Our emotional regulation can impact our ability to manage these changes and developmental life challenges. I help clients through these times in an effort to grow and learn from the experience. I focus on improving assertive communication, reducing anxiety and compulsive behaviors, and developing long-lasting coping strategies for improved growth beyond therapy.
My communication style
My goal is to create a comfortable, friendly, compassionate space where clients feel safe to explore their emotions, especially the ones that are uncomfortable, unpleasant, or painful. I strive to be encouraging and supportive while also gently confronting clients to overcome fears. I believe that honest, direct, and respectful communication is important and I welcome client feedback as part of my own growth as a therapist.
My journey to mental healthcare
I came to be a therapist later in life, as compared to what may be more of a societal norm. I was married at a young age and did not follow the high school to college path initially. When I returned to school, I found myself drawn to psychology because wanting to understand human behavior and humanity in general was intriguing to me. Over time, while working full time and being a wife, I eventually graduated and decided to pursue my Masters in Counseling. I believe that being a client myself before entering my master's program was also something that inspired me to pursue this career. I knew that I wanted to help people in a meaningful way. I have been blessed to have had many opportunities to work with a wide variety of clients who have given me insight into things like severe mental illness (schizophrenia, bipolar, etc) and drug and alcohol addiction, as I feel this gives me insight when these things are present for clients or part of their history. I have never been more convinced that I am in the exact role that I am meant to be in doing what I do.
My goals for you
I believe that successful therapy requires teamwork - this starts at the onset of therapy when I am eager to learn goals that clients share with me. From there, I am there to brainstorm and will generally have many ideas, suggestions, and encouragements around how goals can be reached. I recognize that resistance is part of why people come to therapy in the first place and addressing this is part of this process. I encourage clients to have a willing, experimental spirit around interventions I recommend. I have found a lot of work towards reaching goals happens outside of therapy and I want a client to know I am supporting them all the time.
My first session with you
Clients should expect to feel seen, heard, and understood. Sometimes a first session is the first time in a long time that a client is finally able to release emotions they’ve been suppressing — and this has happened many, many times in my practice. My clients should expect to feel comfortable and find me to be a relatable, kind, knowledgeable, and maybe even funny professional. My goal is for clients to walk away feeling hopeful.
