Cassie Davies
M.A.
Cassie Davies is a board-certified resident in counseling. She holds an M.A. in Counseling and Psychotherapy from the Institute for Clinical Social Work. During her two years of training, Cassie provided psychotherapy to children, adolescents, adults, and families in a private practice and a community mental health clinic. Before becoming a psychotherapist, Cassie received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Virginia, where she taught writing classes for three years in the English Department. Cassie also holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford, England, her country of origin.
Cassie’s approach to working with clients is psychodynamic. This approach takes into account the whole person, from infancy through to adulthood. As a psychodynamic therapist, Cassie believes in healing through understanding. Cassie helps her clients to get to the root of what is troubling them, with the belief that it is only once a person understands why they think, feel, and act as they do that healing and change can take place. Cassie also cares deeply about forming safe and trusting relationships with her clients, in which all types of difficulties can be explored.
About Me
Cassie works primarily with children, adolescents, and parents. Psychotherapy will look different depending on the age of the client. Children are often unable to say what is troubling them, but they can show it, and so Cassie provides children with toys and art materials to help them show what they are feeling. Some adolescents prefer to have something to do while they talk, such as drawing or working with clay. With adults, simply talking tends to be enough.
Parents seeking therapeutic treatment for their child or adolescent can call or email to schedule a consultation. Cassie will offer up to four assessment sessions, preferably with all family members, which will allow her an opportunity to explore how she can best help, provide recommendations, and together decide whether therapy with her is the right option. During this assessment period, Cassie will recommend the form of treatment that she thinks is best suited to needs of the child, which might be individual therapy, family therapy, parent support and guidance, or a combination of these. If the assessment does not lead to a therapeutic relationship, Cassie will provide appropriate referrals.
As part of therapeutic treatment for a child or adolescent, Cassie meets regularly with parents to discuss their child’s progress in treatment, and to give parents the opportunity to explore their concerns about their child, as well as to discuss how the parents might be able to support their child’s development.
Supervised By: George Enfield, MHR, M.Ed., LPC, RPT-S