Jen Davis, MA, LPCC-S
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Jen is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor – Supervisor, with over 20 years of experience, practicing in Louisville, Kentucky. She has a Master of Arts in Counseling with an emphasis on the integration of psychology and theology, offering a holistic approach to counseling.
A holistic, psychodynamic approach takes into account the whole person by addressing all its parts, in effort to grow towards more wholehearted, or integrated, living. The parts of us that go unexplored and unhealed, will often consume our energy and our health in ways we don’t even realize.
Using this approach to reach counseling goals often requires the need to revisit the past. This is where relationship patterns and old coping strategies that have led to present, recurring struggles and discontent, began.
A psychodynamic approach also identifies core beliefs and constructs that inhibit fully knowing and having compassion for the deepest parts of oneself. Acknowledging and integrating these parts, leads to genuine healing, lasting change, and wholehearted living.
COUNSELING IS A JOURNEY TOWARD WHOLEHEARTEDNESS
Wholeheartedness comes from the Latin word meaning “pure,” or “unfalsified.” The simplest definition of wholehearted is, to be completely sincere. Counseling is a process of stepping into deeper truth and sincerity with oneself and, as a result, with others. When we don’t live wholeheartedly, the default is to live out of inauthentic parts of ourselves. These are called, “false selves.” False selves develop as coping strategies at times in one’s life when being fully genuine doesn’t feel safe. A simple example of this is putting on a smile when inside you feel sad. A false self may develop as a way to meet perceived expectations, from feelings of being unsafe, or from a desire for connection. Begin your journey of wholeheartedness at Story Edit Counseling.
MY COUNSELING PERSPECTIVE AND FRAMEWORK
- Every person has a unique design and inherent value. We sometimes need help finding both.
- Finding love and belonging are intrinsic to human nature. We don’t always find these in healthy ways.
- Addressing the past is important. It influences our conscious AND unconscious thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in the present.
- Awareness of adapted defense mechanisms and coping strategies are integral to connecting with one’s whole self and God-given design.
- Engaging in practices of emotional health and growth can lead one to greater awareness and connection with their most authentic (wholehearted) self.