Alison Davies, LCSW received her Bachelor’s degree in English from Williams College and her Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work from Smith College. Alison sees adults, children, and adolescents and has offered psychotherapy for over a decade at community mental health, educational, and private practice settings across Los Angeles.

Alison believes that therapy affords a unique space for people to change their lives and their selves through deep self-reflection and the experience of feeling understood by another. She aims to foster a therapeutic relationship in which her clients feel safe to voice their strugglessuffering and desires and explore new ways of relating to themselves and others. Having worked in depth with children from infancy through young adulthood, Alison is attuned to the importance of early life experiences in our adult lives, as well as the value of play and nonverbal communication in the therapeutic process.

Alison is also the Director of SLP’s Child & Teen Program. Her interest in psychotherapy grew out of her work with children and families in her first career as an elementary school teacher. During graduate school, she treated children and adolescents at Kaiser Permanente Watts Counseling & Learning Center and Culver City Middle & High Schools. Following this, she completed two years of advanced clinical training in psychodynamic psychotherapy with children and families at the Reiss-Davis Child Study Center and Institute and then worked with children full-time for additional two years. Alison’s work with children and their caregivers includes in depth experience with play and talk therapy with children ages 0-18, infant- and child-parent relationships, foster care and adoption, and parenting work.

Alison is licensed as a Clinical Social Worker by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (LCSW 100397).

Areas of specialty: depression, anxiety, trauma, chronic illness and pain, grief and loss, parenting, children & adolescents.