Benefits of Psychoanalytic Consultation

Ongoing psychoanalytic consultation is foundational to both improving your work and enhancing your career as a clinician. If you're wanting to improve your capacity to work with patients at a deeper level, learn how to address impasses and other difficulties, or expand your scope of practice, engaging in psychoanalytic consultation is essential.

Many clinicians struggle with establishing a viable treatment frame, maintaining boundaries in treatment, and recognizing and working with various transference-countertransference developments in treatment. Problems in these areas come to haunt treatments and often limit the possibility of making significant impact and change. Psychoanalytic consultation is essential to helping you better understand what is happening during the treatment and learning how to use your self and the treatment relationship as the fundamental agent of change. Even for those not interested in working from a psychoanalytic perspective per se, a psychoanalytic conceptualization of the treatment offers a firm foundation by which other interventions might be informed. 

Finally, many patients seeking treatment are high-functioning and experience personality-based problems that evade overt indication. Problems for this patient population are often more nuanced and subtle and require a more sophisticated understanding of the dynamics at play. Such patients often find cognitive behavioral modalities and other popular skills-based treatment orientations to be either superficial or comprised of solutions that can often be achieved by themselves. A psychoanalytic conceptualization and treatment approach is often the treatment of choice for higher functioning patients seeking treatment as it offers the possibility for reaching the more unconscious layers of experience that often cause problems for these individuals.

Who Seeks Professional Consultation?

Professional consultation is typically comprised of one-on-one sessions conducted weekly and lasting one hour (or longer for group formats). We will either review a single case in depth over the course of many sessions, or we may review new cases each week depending on your needs and preferences. Each consultation relationship is unique, and we will discuss your goals and objectives for the consultation relationship as we begin. I offer professional consultation to the following types of clinicians:
  • LPCs
  • LCSWs
  • LMFTs
  • Licensed Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists and Psychiatric Residents
  • Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
  • Unlicensed mental health professionals seeking further education
  • Academic Psychologists expanding their scope of practice
  • Executives seeking knowledge of personal and organizational dynamics
*I am not an approved LPC-S or LMFT supervisor and can not offer official supervision to unlicensed professionals.

Fees for Consultation

Consultation fees are $170 per individual session. Groups of clinicians interested in seeking consultation may share consultation fees by splitting the fee among each member of the group. In some cases, fee reductions may be permitted. Please inquire further about conditions when this would be a possibility.

About the Consultant

Tyson Davis, PsyD is a psychologist and psychoanalyst located in Austin, TX. He is licensed to practice across 42 states as a PSYPACT-approved practitioner. He earned his certificate in adult psychoanalysis from the Institute of Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia (IRPP). He completed additional training at Columbia University where he earned a certificate in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP), an empirically supported object relations treatment approach developed by Otto Kernberg for working with patients with Borderline Personality Disorder.