Jennifer Davies, AMFT, APCC

Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #154619, Associate Professional Clinical Counselor #19220

Approach to Therapy: 

Let’s unmask! – Clients trust me because I am honest with them. I am gentle, and I don’t take myself too seriously. Emotions are tricky little goobers that don’t always feel good– we can work to identify and process them to shorten the length of time you may feel stuck in them.

Taking a queer theory lens, I ground my work in challenging social norms and constructs around sex, gender, sexuality, and relationships. This extends to neurodiversity and embracing the varied and nuanced ways our brains work. I have found my neuro and queer affirming framework pairs well with narrative therapy. This means I help you unpack the stories you have been told about yourself and the world and create and tell your own authentic story.

I provide a safe and stigma-free environment to get to know yourself better and ask the whys of life. I help individuals gain greater insight and confidence through authenticity, curiosity, and humor. I focus on your strengths and collaborate with you to identify and process your feelings, navigate relationships, and face the challenges of life.

Therapeutic Focus: 

I specialize in working with those who are neurodivergent, members of the LBGTQIA+ community,  quarter-life navigators, artists/creatives, new to therapy clients, couples, and individuals navigating chronic illness.

Areas of focus include: adjustment disorder, attachment issues, anxiety, chronic illness, coming out, complex PTSD, depression, family conflict, gender identity, neurodivergence (ADHD, autism, highly sensitive persons, OCD– including questioning, self-diagnosed), interpersonal relationships, and religious trauma.

Schooling and Training: 

I earned a BA in Communication Arts from Malone University in Canton, OH, where I took all their photography courses to avoid figuring out what to do with a Communications degree. More recently I completed a MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at New Jersey City University in Jersey City, NJ. While in NJ, I completed practicum training at a private elementary and high school, working with students in grades K-12. In the summer of 2024, I relocated from NYC to Long Beach and finished my practicum fieldwork at The LGBTQ Center OC. I co-founded a therapy group at The LGBTQ Center OC called NeuroQueer to provide a safe space for those who identify as queer and neurodivergent to process the intersectionality of these identities and related topics and experiences. 

Fun Facts About Me: 

I am a wife, a puppy mom, an aunt, neuroqueer, goofball who makes dad jokes, and a daughter to dead parents. I grew up in Cleveland, OH where I inherited all of my midwestern people-pleasing charm. I spent 13 years in NYC & NJ as an actor, singer, and VO artist before the pandemic shifted my trajectory. 

My special interests are musical theater (on stage and off), spurts of fitness, investigative and psychological documentaries, vintage architecture, pop culture rabbit holes, random art and home projects, and basking in the cuteness of my puppy– Cash monkey.

Coming to the mental health profession later in life, I bring a variety of past experiences to my clinical practice, including being a teaching artist, acting and musical background, improvisational comedy, working in religious spaces, questioning and deconstructing religion, caregiving for a chemically dependent parent, and discovering and receiving a late-in-life AuDHD diagnosis.

Fees: 

$190 individual / $250 couples/family/polycule