About
Licensed Marriage & Family therapist | Licensed professional counselor
Dylan Davies, MA, LMFT, LPC
Welcome! I’m a psychotherapist in Central Austin who specializes in couples therapy, interpersonal group therapy and individual therapy for adults. I work with couples who have reached an impasse in their relationship or who are looking to enhance their relationship by more deeply understanding and transforming their learned relational patterns. I enjoy helping couples create more vitality in their relationship and live with a greater sense of ease, freedom and harmony together. I specialize in working with individual clients wishing to explore barriers to deeper connection with others, including working through attachment concerns, and finding greater confidence and enjoyment in romantic, friend, work and family relationships. I also work with adult children who wish to do family therapy with either a sibling or parent.
I have received specialized couples training in various modalities including Relational Life Therapy (RLT), the Gottman Method and Ellyn Bader’s Developmental Model through the Couples Institute. My work with interpersonal group therapy is informed by modern psychoanalysis from the Center for Group Studies in New York where I am currently a student in advanced group studies.
I have extensive training in sexuality and have been passionate about bringing educational opportunities to the Austin area. Eight years ago, I co-founded the Austin-based Sexual Health Alliance, but have since refocused my energy on my clinical work. I worked as the resident Sex Therapist during my clinical practicum at North Austin Urology and provided couples therapy at Capital Area Counseling in 2015 before graduating with a M.A. in Counseling from St. Edward’s in 2015. I have served in a leadership position on the board of Austin Psychoanalytic as the Marketing Chair for 2018-2020 and was on the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee at Austin Group Psychotherapy Society from 2018-2019.
I anchor my practice on the principles of integrity, genuineness and professional competence. I draw inspiration from reading, music and art and continue to take part in trainings that enhance my clinical skills whenever possible. In my free time, I enjoy cycling, playing the banjo and walking the wooded trails in neighboring Pease Park.
Professional Affiliations
Austin Group Psychotherapy Society (AGPS)
Austin Psychoanalytic (AP)
American Association of Marriage & Family Therapy (AAMFT)
American Group Psychotherapy Society (AGPA)
Ongoing Professional training & Development
Student at the Center for Group Studies, New York, NY - 2020 - Present
Ongoing Weekly Training/Consultation Group with Jordan Price, LCSW, CGP - December 2018 - Present
Ongoing Interpersonal Process Group Consultation with Katie Griffin, LPC, CGP, FAGPA - February 2019 - Present
Ongoing Monthly Couples Therapy Consultation Group with Ginger Sullivan, LPC, CGP, FAGPA - January 2024 - Present
Past Professional Training
Center for Group Studies Weekend Training Program: Resolving Transference Resistances & Termination Issues - January 2024
Same Time Next Week: The Power of Couples Group Therapy w/ Ginger Sullivan, LPC, CGP - October 2023
Center for Group Studies Weekend Training Program: Working with Unconscious Material: Dreams, Symbolic, and Non-verbal Communications, NYC - October 2023
Center for Group Studies Weekend Training Program: Specialized Topics in Countertransference, NYC - May 2023
Center for Group Studies Weekend Training Program: Working with Pre-oedipal Patients in Group, NYC - January 2023
AGPS Annual Conference - From Sensation to Relation: Application of Somatic Experiencing in Group Psychotherapy w/ Carlos Canales, Psy.D, CGP, FAGPA, SEP - November 2022
AGPS Workshop - Oedipus in Most of Us: Wounded Parents and the Therapists They Raised w/ Allen Lambert, - October 2022
Terry Real: Staying In Love - The Art of Fierce Intimacy - June 2022
Couples Institute: Beyond the Weekly Model: Using Intensives for More Effective Couples Therapy w/ Lori Weisman, MA, LMHC - June 2022
AINC - IPNB and Treatment Planning: How to use the 9 levels of integration w/ Juliane Taylor Shore, LMFT, LPC, SEP - September 2021
Center for Group Studies Weekend Training Program: Working with Unconscious Material: Dreams, Symbolic, and Non-verbal Communications, NYC - October 2020
AGPS Workshop: Exploring the Hidden Costs of Microaggressions in Group Therapy - September 2020
AP Study Group/Salon: Erotic Transference & Countertransference w/ JoAnn Ponder, PhD: January - March 2020
AGPS Workshop & Panel: Women Group Leaders & Aggression - February 2020
AP Monthly Meeting w/ Dr. Carolyn Bates: The Me Too Movement - Embodied Shame and Scapegoating Sexuality in Modern Day America.
AGPS Annual Meeting: How We Talk About the Power and Value of Group - January 2020
AGPS’s 2-day Institute: Sexuality, Hate, Shame and Abandonment: The Family We Wish We Had & the Group We Can Have w/ Jordan Price, LCSW, CGP - January 2020
AP’s Nancy McWilliams: Pathological Narcissism: It’s Impact of Love, Sexuality & Relationships - January 2020
AGPS’s Annual Conference: The Integrated Group Leader - Mindful Leadership Using Internal Family Systems & Modern Group Therapy w/ Yoon Im Kane - November 2019
AGPS 3-day Institute: Starting a Group: Developing your own Group Contract w/ Dave Kaplowitz & Michelle Bohls - December 2018
IPNB Conference: High-Impact Couples Therapy with Terry Real - November 2018
AGPS’s 2-day Annual Conference: Cultivating the Internal Secure Base in Group Psychotherapy w/ Aaron Black - November 2018
Austin Psychoanalytic Ethics Conference: In Dark Times: Psychoanalytic Practice & Ethics as a Form of Resistance w/ Dr. Era Loewenstein, PhD - October 2018
Austin Psychoanalytic Monthly Meeting: The Psychoanalytic Mind: From Monad to Intersubjective Field w/ Dr. Marianna Adler - September 2018
AGPS's Diversity Dialogue: Setting Down Roots - Group Therapist Reflections on Immigration - August 2018
Annual AASECT 3-day Sex Therapy Conference, Denver, CO - June 2018
ASPP's Monthly Meeting: The Traveling Unconscious - Telehealth in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy - May 2018
ASPP's Ethics Conference: Psychoanalysis as Ethical Praxis w/ Marianna Adler - April 2018
AGPS's Diversity Dialogue: Age in Groups: More than Just a Number? (Co-Facilitator) - April 2018
Zur Institute: To Zip or Not to Zip “One’s Lips’: Therapists’ Self-Disclosure - Ethical Considerations - April 2018
Zur Institute: Boundaries in Psychotherapy & Counseling - April 2018
AINC's Healing Adult Attachment: The Three Pillars of Integrative Treatment w/ Dr. David Elliott - April 2018
ASPP's Talking About Money w/ Danielle Witchel, LCSW, Sharon Horowitz, PhD & Trae Gilbert, LPC - April 2018
SHA's Monogamish: 31 Flavors of Ethical Non-Monogamy w/ Dr. David Ley & Dr. Elizabeth Sheff - March 2018
AGPA 5-Day Connect Group Psychotherapy Annual Conference – February - March 2018
AGPS Institute: Tuning In to the Language of the Body in Group Therapy with Barbara Davis – January 2018
AGPS: Panel Discussion - Beyond the Binary: Exploring Gender & Gender Identity in Groups - January 2018
AINC - Working w/ the Body & the Mind to Support Connection w/ Self and Others to Shift Lifelong Patterns with Sue Snyder Pederson, LCSW - January 2017
ASPP’s Encounter at the Boundary with Gemma Ainslie, PhD – December 2017
AGPS’s 2-Day Institute: Dependency and Counter-Dependency in Group with Jev Sikes, PhD – November 2017
Sex in Group Psychotherapy: How to Have More of It w/ Patty Olwell, LPC and Scott Phillips, LMFT – November 2017
Awesome Anal Sex Workshop w/ Charlie Glickman – November 2017
SHA: The Sweet Spot: Advanced Skills in Pleasure w/ Charlie Glickman – November 2017
Developing & Sustaining Successful Group Leadership Practices w/ Dr. Molyn Leszcz, AGPS Annual Conf. – October 2017
RLT: Relational Life Couple Therapy Level Two with Terry Real, Toronto, Canada – September 2017
Ongoing Monthly Relational Life CoupleTherapy study group at IPNB Austin – July 2017 - present
RLT: Relational Life Couple Therapy Level One w/ Terry Real – May through June 2017
SHA Workshop: The Tantra Informed Practitioner w/ Dr. Sally Valentine – May 2017
Using Humor and Metaphor to Disarm High-Conflict Couples w/ Dr. Mathis Kennington – April 2017
Insight and Collisions in Working with Psychoanalytic Patients & Sex Offenders w/ Dr. JoAnne Ponder – April 2017
Group Treatment for Men with OCSB (Out-of-Control Sexual Behavior) with Doug Braun-Harvey & Michael Vigorito with Year long monthly consultation groups – March 2017 - March 2018
Counseling Gender Creative Children & Teenagers 101 w/ Ryan Dillon – March 2017
Consultation Group w/ Doug Braun-Harvey on Sexual Health and OCSB (Out-of-Control Sexual Behavior) – January 2017
Current Treatments for Sexual Dysfunction in Women, Dr. Sandeep Mistry – January 2017
Cutting Edges of Alternative Sexualities in Therapy with Dr. Richard Sprott & Dr. Anna Randall – December 2016
SHA: Sex Outside the Lines: Liberating Sex from Culture, Psychology and Normativity w. Dr. Chris Donaghue - October 2016
12-Hour Sexual Attitude Reassessment for AASECT Certification w/ Dr. Sara Nasserzadeh – August 2016
AASECT Annual Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico – June 2016
The Business of Private Practice with Susan Gonzalez – May 2016
SSHA: Come As You Are: Secrets from the Science of Female Sexuality w/ Emily Nagoski – May 2016
Case Consultation Group at IPNB with Marty Klein – February 2016
SSHA: Sexual Intelligence: Innovative Approaches to Sexual “Function” & Satisfaction with Dr. Marty Klein – February 2016
Introduction to the Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy, PACT w/ Elaine Tuccio – January 2016
Sex Made Simple: Clinical Strategies for Sexual Issues in Therapy with Dr. Barry McCarthy – January 2016
T-Group – Minding the Heart Experiential w/ Tori Olds: Ongoing once monthly weekend intensives: January 2015- present
Porn: What You Need to Know with Dr. David Ley: December 2015
Relational Psychoanalysis Study Group with Michael Donnell, PhD: Weekly, September 2015 – November 2015
Self-Compassion & Emotional Resilience with Kristen Neff, PhD: September 2015
AASECT Annual Conference 2015 in Minneapolis, MN: June 2015
Contemporary Relationships 2-Day Conference in Austin, TX: May 2015
Trans* 101 with Heather Davies @ Capital Area Counseling: April 2015
Gottman Couples Therapy Level One Professional Training w/ Dr. Vagdevi Meunier: March 2015
ISSWSH Annual Conference in Austin, TX: February 2015
When Your Man Wants Sex w/ Other Men & He’s Straight! Say What?! With Derek Leighton: January 2015
Exploring the Triple Flame: Attachment, Intimacy & Sexuality with Esther Perel: November 2014
Same & Different: Tips for working with LGBTQ couples with Saro Helpinstill & Adam Maurer: October 2014
AGPS Workshop: Lacanian Desire in Group Psychotherapy with Scott Conkright, PsyD: September 2014
AGPS Workshop: Sexual Health in Group Psychotherapy with Douglas Braun-Harvey, LMFT, CGP: May 2014
Minding the Heart Training Group: Mindfulness, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Trauma Work, Attunement Training, Working with Defenses & Emotion, Tracking the Body, and Attunement in Couples Work with Sydnor Sikes, PhD and Tori Olds, PhD: January – May 2014, November 2014 – August 2015
AGPS 2-Day Institute – The Known, the Shown and Disowned: Identifying & Embracing Unlovable Affect States in the Interpersonal Group with Glenn Olds, PhD, CGP and Zach Bryant, PhD: April 2014
Brainstorm: The Inside-Out Guide to the Emerging Adolescent with Dan Siegel, MD: April 2014
Electric Relationships with Vagdevi Meunier, PhD: March 2014
40 Hour Volunteer Domestic Violence Training at Safeplace: January – March 2014
Understanding Your Client’s Brain with Juliane Taylor Shore, LPC-S, LMFT-S, SEP: January – February 2013
The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind with Dan Siegel, MD: September 2012