Dr. Pierce-Davis does psychological testing and therapy with children, adolescents, and their parents~ and with adults.

Using assessment, play, and cognitive behavioral therapies, Dr. Pierce-Davis works with troubled children and adolescents. Additionally, she works with at risk youth and the courts through her organization LifeEdTeenEd. 

LifeEdTeenEd offers intervention programs for people, including teens who have been cited by the courts and/or are having problems with tobacco, alcohol, drugs.

With adults, she does both brief and long-term therapy for depression, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorders.

She counsels people going through work stress, separation, divorce, death of loved one, abuse recovery, retirement, changing family roles, and spiritual conflicts.

One specialty area is her work with medical patients. Chronic illness, pain, physical and life changes are sources of emotional distress. In turn, emotional distress adversely affects pain tolerance and the course of disease.

Trained in the Simonton Cancer Counseling Program, Dr. Pierce-Davis uses techniques developed for cancer patients, and with patients who have other chronic and acute illnesses. She helps patients develop positive coping skills, and expertise in deep relaxation, imagery, and self-hypnosis. She works closely with patients' physicians and provides frequent patient contact and encouragement for medical compliance.

Dr. Pierce-Davis has developed an outreach to women going through infertility. In therapy, her clients look at the changes infertility has made in their lives, their marriages, friendships, and families. They learn to cope with these changes, and with the emotional and physical stress, discomfort, and fear that are part of infertility treatments.

Dr. Pierce-Davis is a preferred provider for many insurance panels. To set up an appointment, call 512-345-6781, extension 24. The doctor will personally arrange an appointment.

LifeEdTeenEd is a multi-program intervention/cessation school for people of all ages whose lives are adversely affected by substance use, abuse, and addiction. State-licensed to provide awareness programs, LifeEdTeenEd is available to adults, teens, families, schools, employers, probation officers, and the courts.

LifeEdTeenEd provides the information people need to re-think, resist, and stop self-damaging, destructive, and in some cases, illegal behaviors. LifeEdTeenEd is a prevention resource for families and individuals wishing to stay informed about the effects of substances on their lives.

Alcohol Education Program for Minor in Possession (AEP - MIP)

Adolescent Tobacco Cessation Program (ATCP)

Drug Offender Education Program (DOEP)

Drug and Alcohol Drivers Awareness Program (DADAP)

LifeEdTeenEd staff is comprised of experienced, committed professionals who are leaders in their communities. They encourage group involvement and interaction.  They limit class size to enhance quality of presentation and student-teacher contact. Stress management, respect, communication and social skills are interwoven into every program taught by LifeEdTeenEd.

If you would like to visit further about TeenEd, call
LifeEdTeenEd South  1-830-625-0630
(New Braunfels, San Antonio, Bulverde)
LifeEdTeenEd Austin  1-512-258-3240

or go to LifeEdTeenEd.com

"In some ways, infertility grief is similar to the sorrow that comes when someone you love dies. That which you are missing seemingly becomes magnified when you see those who have what you've lost or what you want and don't have. While this increased awareness seems like envy, in reality it has to do with loss: Loss of expectations..."

from Melanie Dillon, Coffee and Clomid

From the desk of Dr. Pierce-Davis:

Over the past five years, I began to see in my private practice a growing number of clients with fertility problems. Women came with complaints of depression, anxiety, relationship problems, feelings of isolation, and sadness. Gradually, their stories of frustration, discouragement, and grief unfolded: months of disappointment, roller coaster emotions, miscarriages, and fertility treatments.

They found themselves avoiding settings where children and babies were present, shopping malls, holiday gatherings, family reunions, church. Perhaps most distressing was the pain they experienced in the face of unwitting and hurtful comments from family and friends, even strangers. As time went on, they became increasingly isolated with their pain and shame.

WHAT DOES 
SPICEWOOD PSYCHOTHERAPY GROUP
HAVE TO OFFER?

We at Spicewood Psychotherapy Group understand it is important to grieve the losses unique to infertility: the loss of one's expectations, of an unborn child, or a future never given a chance. We also understand the deep psychological need to carry an child, and to give birth. It is not something easily forfeited.

We have studied the procedures involved in infertility treatments. When you talk to us, you will know we heard this story before.

Individual Counseling Many men and women prefer to talk one-on-one with a therapist. Health insurance reimburses licensed therapists for counseling related to infertility. We are on many insurance programs, and are happy to work with your insurance programs when possible.

Group Therapy Others like the more social nature of a group. Group provides a weekly format for support, counseling, educating, and sharing by women at all stages of infertility.

Couple Counseling Some couples wish to approach difficult decisions together -- decisions about treatment, surgery, adoption, egg or sperm donor options. Such issues call for an impartial party to provide different perspectives, or to ensure a safe environment in which even anxious honesty can be expressed.

Topics:

Grief Consoling/Counseling ¥ Loss of ability to parent ¥ Loss of child ¥ Loss of identity as parent	Information Sharing ¥ Internet, web pages ¥ Books ¥ Publications, pamphlets

To Make an Appointment

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If you wish to make an appointment for individual or couple counseling, please call the therapist you wish to see. Each therapist makes his/her own appointments.