Jennifer Davis, MS, LPC

Psychotherapist
Licensed Professional Counselor

Prior to joining Duke Integrative Medicine, Davis provided health psychology services for multiple programs at the Duke Center for Living, including Duke Executive Health Program, Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation programs, Getting on Track weight management program, as well as teaching stress management and meditation classes and providing individual and group therapy. She has been working in the field of health psychology at the Duke Center for Living since 1999.

Davis's clinical and research work has focused on lifestyle change, multicultural and gender differences in body image, the impact of spirituality on heart and lung disease risk and rate of recovery from heart and lung transplant, and exploring meditation and mindfulness-based treatment for binge eating, compulsive eating, and the treatment of obesity. She is currently the study coordinator of an NIH-funded grant investigating the use of meditation and mindfulness-based skills for weight maintenance.

Davis received her master's degree in rehabilitation counseling and psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999 and completed an internship at the Duke Center for Living that same year.

She is a licensed professional counselor in North Carolina. She is also a meditation teacher, certified as a QuitSmart Smoking Cessation instructor and as a LifeSkills trainer, and is credentialed in medical hypnotherapy. She currently provides individual counseling with special interest in obesity and disordered eating, stress-related health problems, anxiety, depression, smoking cessation, and lifestyle change.