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. Following graduate school, she completed two years of advanced clinical training in psychodynamic psychotherapy at the Reiss-Davis Child Study Center and Institute. Alison has offered psychotherapy at community mental health and educational settings across Los Angeles.

Alison believes that therapy affords a unique space for people to seek both understanding and the experience of feeling understood. She aims to foster a therapeutic relationship in which her clients feel safe to voice their suffering and desires and explore new ways of relating to themselves and others.

Alison works with adults as well as children & adolescents. Having worked in depth with children from infancy through young adulthood, Alison is particularly attuned to the importance of early life experiences in our present-day adult selves and circumstances, as well as the value of play and nonverbal communication in the therapeutic process. She also brings extensive experience supporting individuals in their roles as parents.

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

Areas of specialty: depression, anxiety, relationships, parenting, self-esteem, trauma, grief and loss.