John Davis Counseling

John Davis Counseling About John Davis:

John Davis is president and Executive Director of The Mental Health Counselor's Association of Palm Beach.

John Davis is a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor specializing in individual, couples and family psychotherapy and maintains a private practice in Delray Beach, Florida focused on trauma based disorders. He is an expert addiction therapist and a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor specializing in individual, couples and family psychotherapy. John maintains a private practice in Delray Beach, Florida focused on recovery from addictions of all kind and relatred disorders including PTSD, depression, DID, and characterological disorders known as Axis II, or personality disorders. He is a Clinical Hypnotherapist, certified under the direction of The Institute for Survivors of Sexual Violence, Jupiter, FL 33458. He has also trained extensively in clinical applications of hypnosis with Dr Douglas Flemons of Nova University and Context Consultants. John is a graduate of The University of Georgia at Athens and The University of West Georgia at Carrolton. John's "12-step friendly' approach specializes in Zen Mindfulness based therapies, including Gestalt, Psychodrama, and Acceptance Commitment Therapy as well as a variety of Cognitive based methods. He is currently a private practitioner working with a broad spectrum of clients. John is an action oriented therapist whose approach is to provide support and practical feedback to help clients resolve current problems and long-standing patterns. He incorporates a blend of conventional and alternative approaches, drawing upon a variety of styles and techniques to incorporate what will be most helpful for each client. With sensitivity and compassion, he works with each client to help them build on their strengths to identify and achieve life goals. Additional Training:

Addiction and Recovery Internship, Growing, Inc. Boca Raton, FL
Marriage and Family Counseling Resident, Samaritan Center, Ft Lauderdale FL
Psychodrama Recurring
Acceptance and Mindfulness Approaches Recurring
EMDR Recurring
Clinical Hypnotherapy Recurring

License:

Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor MH 9306

12/27/2025

There’s an old Buddhist teaching known as the Kalama Sutta that offers a timeless reminder:
Don’t accept ideas simply because they are traditional, popular, repeated by authority, or followed by many.
Examine them for yourself.

Ask instead:

Does this way of thinking reduce suffering—or increase it?

Does it lead to compassion—or cruelty?

Does it create peace—or division?

If a belief encourages harm, exclusion, fear, or violence, then no matter how old, widespread, or confidently preached it is, it has failed the test of wisdom.

Any ideology that teaches you to look down on others, justify harm, or silence empathy in the name of being “right” has missed its purpose entirely. Truth does not need hatred to defend it. Goodness does not require enemies.

Real understanding makes you gentler.
Real wisdom humbles you.
Real clarity expands your capacity to see humanity in everyone.

The Kalama teaching is simple and radical:
If something leads to suffering, let it go.
If it leads to compassion, peace, and understanding, live it.

No belief is above examination.
And no idea is worth losing your humanity for.

12/25/2025

“The world is violent and mercurial...it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love...love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.” Tennessee Williams/Interview with James Grissom

Happy Holidays.

12/14/2025

Not once, in the four and a half years I learned at home, did anyone from the state come to assess what sort of education I was receiving, or even just check on me.

Address

306 NE 2nd Street Suite 16
Delray Beach, FL
33483

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