I’m a clinical psychologist and trained psychoanalyst based in Austin, Texas who believes that good therapy is about going deeper and making the kind of change that lasts.
I’m a clinical psychologist and trained psychoanalyst, and my work is built on a simple conviction: good therapy can change the lifelong patterns that silently shape our lives and keep us from enjoying all that life has to offer.
Good therapy is about going beneath the surface, facing our fears, and letting ourselves fall apart — all in the safety of a relationship with a trusted companion. It was in the context of our earliest relationships where our deepest wounds developed, and it’s only in the context of a meaningful relationship where our deepest wounds can be healed.
I’ve discovered my own transformation from this work firsthand — it’s the real reason I do what I do everyday. And it’s what I offer those who come seeking my help: a different kind of work and a deeper kind of change. The people I help best aren’t from one kind of group — one with this or that kind of “disorder.” Instead, they’re the ones who want help the most, and this often includes the full spectrum of people.
Many of my patients have had therapy before but — for one reason or another — found it underwhelming. I also see others who are ambitious and driven — the ones whom others look to and lean on, but who struggle to lean on others themselves. Most of all, I work best with those who are curious — those who ask why they do what they do. These are the type who are ready to grow deeply. And I most enjoy working with those who want this kind of change.
Psychodynamic therapy is all about understanding what’s outside our awareness in order to get to matters at the heart of the problem. Rather than outlining an agenda, offering advice, or handing you a set of exercises to practice, making change that lasts involves delving more deeply. It means leaning into painful thoughts and feelings, facing the things we typically avoid, and addressing the longstanding patterns most of us learn to work around.
Psychodynamic therapy is about coming to terms with the things we’ve been afraid of and allowing ourselves, finally, to face them head on. Much of that work is about discovering what we can’t let ourselves face and gently dismantling the rigid and familiar patterns that get in our way, so that real, lasting change finally becomes possible. Rather than quick-fixes or rapid solutions, it requires effort, investment, and a clinician trained to do this kind of work. It asks more of you than most approaches, but it offers more in return. And while it’s the type of work that can be unsettling, it’s the reward of the life that follows that makes it worth the risk.
You can’t do this kind of deeper work on your own – it requires the help of someone outside. In psychodynamic therapy, the therapy relationship itself is critical to going deeper. It’s only within an authentic relationship with someone trained to see what’s below that we can begin to experience ourselves and our relationships in a new and healing way.
Certificate in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (2024)
Certificate in Adult Psychoanalysis (2019)
PsyD Clinical Psychology (2013)
MA Clinical Psychology (2010)
BA Philosophy (2008)
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Davis, T. (2026). Learning From Relational Excess. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 0(0).
Davis, T. (2026). Book Review: On Coming Into Possession of Oneself: Transformations of the Interpersonal Field. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 0(0).
Davis, T. (2018). A Philosophical Critique of the Relational Movement: a review of Psychoanalysis Beyond the End of Metaphysics: thinking towards the post-relational by Robin Brown S. Brown. New York, NY: Routledge, 2017. 142 pp., Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 54:1, 229-239, DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2017.1422916
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