Going "deeper" means helping you discover and better understand your unique personality - the unique shapes, colors, and textures that define who you are and how you experience yourself and the world. Helping you understand your personality serves as a kind of backdrop permeating our approach to treatment.
In addition to your outward symptoms, we consider your developmental history, your attachment wounds, your interactions with others, your various thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations, and the various ways you act and operate across multiple dimensions of your life. This provides an invaluable context for helping us understand the important and nuanced meanings your symptoms express.
About Us
We are a team of clinical psychologists specializing in psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adults and couples. Although we each practice independently and maintain our own unique styles, we are united by our appreciation for psychoanalytic theory as it informs the ways we think and work. So, what is psychoanalytic therapy?
Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapies emphasize the role of unconscious/implicit processes underlying our suffering. By "unconscious processes," we mean those aspects of our personality of which we're unaware. We often repeat the same mistakes over and over again due to the influence of factors that lie outside our awareness. Understanding "what lies beneath" is essential in helping us understand why we repeat the same mistakes over and over again and how to ultimately make changes that last. The kind of changes that often occur from this approach to therapy include not only relief from various symptoms but the growth of inner resources and capacities to create a life that is more rich and meaningful. (Click here to learn more about the strong evidence base for psychoanalytic therapies) We also believe the best clinicians in this field are those who engage in continuous growth through personal therapy and regular consultation with peers and supervisors. Therapy and regular consultation offer therapists essential input from beyond the therapist's particular vantage point. These values are hallmarks of our philosophy of practice, not only because they are personally meaningful to us, but because they are what most benefit our clients.
Our History
Glen Forest was co-founded by husband and wife psychologists - Tyson Davis, PsyD and Jaclyn Davis, PhD. Having met in graduate school in California, they relocated to Pennsylvania where they established a private practice and pursued further clinical training. Tyson is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, and Jaclyn is a clinical psychologist who has studied psychoanalytic therapy. Both maintain an active interest in providing the highest quality of therapy to a wide range of adults and couples. Glen Forest remains committed to helping people make deep and lasting changes in their lives and to helping train and educate other clinicians about contemporary relational approaches to psychotherapy.