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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.

The Oyster

Once upon a time an oyster lay on the bottom of the bay.  Oysters are very rough on the outside and not very colorful.  The shell of an oyster is often ground up into small pieces and used to make roads.  People and vehicles ride and walk all over roads made out of oyster shells.

This oyster was no different.  "I am designed to allow people to walk all over me because I'm just a yucky, ugly oyster," the oyster told herself day after day.  "I was created for people to walk on me."  The oyster had also heard that people sometimes became poisoned from eating oysters.  So she told herself, "I'm really worthless; all I do is make people sick."

Often when oysters are served at restaurants, people remark, "Yuck, oysters are slimy, they're yucky.  Why would anyone want such a repulsive thing?"  So the oyster would say to herself, "they're right, I'm not worth anything, I'm slimy, people hate me, and I am worthless."

• Individual brief therapy for job-related trauma.
• Training for law enforcement, fire/rescue/EMT professionals and combat veterans on job-related trauma and PTSD.  This training can include treatment of selected employees who have been impacted by job-related trauma and demonstrations to mental health professional working with these departments on using MTP.
• Assisting departments in their response to critical incidents which have heavily impacted a number of employees.  This response can include education, debriefing and working with individuals, groups of employees and family members.  This response would be a team approach; retired fire/rescue/EMT professionals and/or law enforcement officers trained in debriefing would work with Dr. Davis.

For law enforcement officer, police chaplain, military personnel and other professionals who give death notifications

This Death Notification Training Video was created and produced by Nancy Davis, Ph.D., during the period she served as Chief of Counseling Services, of the Employee Assistance Unit, Federal Bureau of Investigation with the assistance and recommendations from:

• The Multi-Media Resources Unit, FBI Academy; summer; 2000  This unit also filmed and mastered this video.
• The Immense Experience