Dr Nancy Davis
- Psychologist
- Therapist
- Author
- Internationally Known Teacher and Trainer
- Expert Witness
- Research Designer & Trainer
Dr. Nancy Davis is a clinical psychologist who specializes in treating post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and job-related trauma. At the present time she is primarily treating the job-related trauma of law enforcement officers, fire and rescue service professionals and soldiers returning from combat duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. The focus of her brief treatment is to reduce and eliminate symptoms caused by exposure to traumatic experiences and return these professionals and soldiers to a high level of job and social functioning. She also sees victims of violence and/or life-threatening traumas, such as rape, compliant victims of sexual sadists and grievers whose loss has caused PTSD symptoms.
From April 1998 – December, 2000, Dr. Davis served as Chief of Counseling Services for the Employee Assistance Unit of the FBI where she treated numerous law enforcement officers and their family members, primarily for job-related trauma and grief. In addition to FBI agents, she has worked with traumatized law enforcement officers from a variety of settings, including the FBI’s National Academy, which trains officers from within and outside the United States. Dr. Davis worked with the organization COPS for a number of years; COPS deals with families of officers killed in the line of duty.
Dr. Davis has also treated emergency service workers and rescue workers in a variety of settings. She provided treatment for children and rescue workers following the bombing of the Courthouse in Oklahoma City; her audio tape, “Letting Go” was given to hundreds of the rescue workers. In response to the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Centers, Dr. Davis developed a CD, “The Rescue Worker”, as a way of helping fire fighters, paramedics and law enforcement officers process the trauma taken in from working at the rescue sites. These CD’s were paid for by a company called ADTECH and given to hundreds of rescue workers, free of charge. In addition, she has provided treatment to law enforcement officers, fire fighters, and civilians traumatized by the terrorist acts on September 11, 2001. She created a website, http://www.rescue-workers.com, to assist those professionals traumatized by their service following the 9-11 attacks.
Dr. Davis received her Ph.D. in 1972, served as a school psychologist from 1976 – 1985, after this, Dr. Davis established a private practice where she treated children, adolescents and adults who had been traumatized by child abuse, rape, homicide of a loved one, domestic violence and job-related trauma. She has testified as an expert witness in PTSD and child abuse in over 130 legal proceedings. She provided training in PTSD at The Maryland Fire Chief Officers Seminar and The World Congress on Stress, Trauma and Coping in the Emergency Services. She has received training in Critical Incident Stress Debriefing.
In providing services to hundreds of traumatized children, adolescents and adults in her private practice beginning in 1985 and through treating hundreds of FBI agents, law enforcement officers, support employees and their families, as Chief of Counseling Services for the FBI, Dr. Davis developed a treatment method for reducing or eliminating the symptoms that can arise following traumatic incidents, particularly those related to job-related trauma. She has called her technique, Multi-Sensory Trauma Processing (MTP). Multi-Sensory Trauma Processing: Understanding & Treating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Job-Related Trauma will be available soon. Research comparing MTP with established therapeutic techniques with torture victims has been completed. The lack of mental health professionals and money to provide traditional therapy in undeveloped countries motivated this research which was funded by a government. (See abstract in Articles).
Dr. Davis is also the author of two other books: Therapeutic Stories that Teach and Heal and Therapeutic Stories to Heal Abused Children, which will soon be available with updated research and additional stories and pictures. Dr. Davis has a son who is currently a law enforcement officer; her husband was an FBI agent followed by serving the FBI as Chief Counsel; Assistant Director prior to his retirement.
- Law enforcement officers
- Fire fighters, rescue workers and paramedics
- Iraq Combat Veterans/Vietnam Veterans
- Survivors experiencing traumatic grief
- Rape victims; “Compliant Victims” of sexual sadists
- Victims of life-threatening violence
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