Jennifer Davidtz, Ph.D.
Full-Time Faculty, Department of Clinical and School Psychology
Education:
- Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Amherst
- M.S. University of Massachusetts Amherst
- B.A. California State University, Northridge
- B.A. Northwest University, South Africa
Professional Interests
Jennifer Davidtz Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the College of Psychology at Nova Southeastern University, where she is also the Director of Internship Training for the Psychology Services Center (PSC), and Director of Psychological Services for the Emotionally Distressed, a specialty clinic within the PSC that serves people with serious mental illness and personality disorders. She completed her doctoral training in Clinical Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, followed by a doctoral internship at The Cambridge Hospital/Harvard Medical School and post-doctoral fellowship at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.
Dr. Davidtz’s clinical and scholarly interests include community psychology and social justice; the treatment of serious mental illness, complex posttraumatic and dissociative conditions, and borderline personality disorder; clinical psychology training and therapist development; contemporary relational psychodynamic psychotherapy; countertransference and other intersubjective psychotherapy process phenomena; and psychotherapy integration