Denise R. Davis, LCSW is in private practice in Highland Park, IL where she treats children, adolescents, adults and couples, supervises clinicians and holds a study group. She is an instructor in The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration’s Professional Development Program and Advanced Psychodynamic Fellowship in Clinical Practice and also presented at the Illinois Society for Clinical Social Work. She is a member of the Midwest Self Psychology Study Group, the co-chair of International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology’s (IAPSP) Child and Adolescent Initiative, a member of IAPSP’s Advisory Board and the IAPSP Council. She has presented at IAPSP Conferences on brief psychotherapy, trauma and boundaries. She has been a discussant and moderator for IAPSP online journal clubs and writes for IAPSP’s eForum. She is the author of Moments of Meeting: A Self Psychological Approach published in the International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology 2015, the author of a chapter in Moments of Meeting in Psychoanalysis: Interaction and Change in the Therapeutic Encounter (Routledge Relational Perspective Series 2017) and Bounded Openness: A Secure Base for Expansion and Creativity to be published in Psychoanalysis, Self and Context in 2018.