Meet Jessica Davis, LCPC

I love a challenging kid! Most likely because I was also a challenging kid.  In middle school and high school, I made many poor decisions and had to visit the Principal’s office on a few occasions.  I was stubborn.  I relished proving a teacher wrong and that I was correct.  I thought I knew everything.  I enjoyed talking to all of my classmates whenever I could, regardless of whether the teacher approved.  Best of all, I was a horrible driver which resulted in several embarrassing accidents that frustrated my parents, but they supported me through it – financially and emotionally.

In addition to my own mistakes, I got to watch my twin brother collide with certain teachers, date interesting girls, and struggle academically throughout high school.  I also watched as my older sister dealt with test anxiety.  My parents had learned how to support my brother and I through school transitions because of the difficulty my sister had with the change from elementary school to middle school.

I came to a realization that no matter how smart you are, or how great your family is, adolescence is just a hard time for teenagers to navigate.

From these experiences, I developed a strong desire to help others avoid the pitfalls that I look back upon today and pursued psychology in college and graduate school.  After I graduated and started to work in the field, I realized that I had a lot to offer teens trying to find their way.   I found that communicating with struggling teens was easy for me and I could provide a safe place for those teenagers to come and talk about their fears, worries, and frustrations, while also helping them to see things from a perspective other than their own.

I can be an adult figure supporting them while also getting to enjoy the person they are becoming. I get to see in counseling sessions the adult that your teen could become.