Flexible. Integrated.
Built Around You.
Every engagement begins with a thorough integrated assessment — examining the whole person across mental, emotional, psychological, and performance dimensions. This is not a standard intake. It is the foundation that makes everything that follows precise, personalised, and effective.
In a deeply focused and fully conscious state, Dr. Davis guides the subconscious to release performance-limiting beliefs and install new, precisely targeted patterns at a neurological level — ones that activate automatically under pressure.
Hypnotherapy breakthroughs are reinforced through elite performance coaching — building the mantras, anchors, and mental routines that activate new subconscious programming in real competition. This is where theory becomes championship.
Continuous psychiatric oversight ensures the work evolves with the athlete. Medication management, CBT for Insomnia, and psychopharmacology are available as clinically appropriate — creating a genuinely comprehensive performance system.
It Works.
All coaching and hypnotherapy sessions are available virtually — by phone or video — and Dr. Davis has found virtual delivery to be equally effective, and for many clients, even more so. The familiarity and comfort of your own environment can deepen the hypnotic state. For touring athletes and traveling executives, this means the work never has to stop. You can do a session from a hotel room the night before a tournament, from the locker room, or from home. The edge travels with you.
or Both — Integrated.
Dr. Davis offers performance coaching and clinical hypnotherapy separately or as a fully integrated program — depending entirely on what you need. Some clients come specifically for hypnotherapy. Others engage for coaching and discover hypnotherapy opens a dimension nothing else had. And some want the full integrated model from day one: psychiatric oversight, performance coaching, and clinical hypnotherapy working in concert. All three paths begin with the same integrated comprehensive assessment, so the right approach emerges from your goals — not a preset program.
Six Dimensions Where
Everything Changes
Reprograms the fight-or-flight response that causes the body to tighten and the mind to freeze at critical moments — replacing automatic panic with automatic composure, at a subconscious level conscious effort cannot reach.
Reaches the subconscious stories athletes carry — "I can't close," "I don't belong here," "I always fall apart in the final round" — and replaces them with performance-aligned beliefs that hold under the heaviest pressure.
Trains the brain to access and sustain the effortless, absorbed state elite performers call "the zone" — on command, not by accident. Hypnotherapy creates a reliable neurological pathway into flow states under competition conditions.
Combined with Dr. Davis's certification in CBT for Insomnia, hypnotherapy addresses the overactive mind that keeps elite athletes awake the night before competition — and accelerates neurological and physical recovery between events.
Addresses the psychological dimensions of injury that physical rehab cannot touch — the fear of re-injury, the loss of competitive identity, the rebuilding of trust in the body — while also modulating pain perception and accelerating healing.
Where traditional coaching hits a ceiling, hypnotherapy reaches beneath it. Performance plateaus and persistent mental blocks are almost always subconscious in origin. This is precisely what clinical hypnotherapy is built to unlock.
Subconscious
Anchors
Under Pressure.
One illustration of clinical hypnotherapy at work: the use of precision-crafted subconscious anchors to activate a specific mental state under championship pressure — automatically, without conscious effort.
One example of Dr. Davis's hypnotherapy work in action: working with a PGA Tour player ahead of a final round, the sessions produced subconscious anchors — short, specific triggers engineered to bypass the anxiety loop and activate composure on demand. The player wrote them on his wrist and referred to them throughout each round en route to a Tour victory.
This is not a coaching technique. It is clinical hypnotherapy applied in the field — the subconscious doing automatically what the conscious mind cannot sustain under pressure. It is one example among many across sports and performance disciplines.
"There was so much that I had going on in my life, not just in golf, but more so in my life, and we tackled a lot of things, a lot of long conversations these last couple weeks. And I've really tried to work on myself off the golf course, dealing with a lot of different things."
A Track Record
Across Sports.
Dr. Davis has worked with multiple PGA Tour players, coaching several to victories on tour. His performance coaching work at the professional level has been covered by PGA Tour, Forbes, and international press.
Dr. Davis has worked with a women's Olympic tennis medalist, bringing clinical hypnotherapy and psychiatric performance coaching to the highest stage in global sport.
Work with NCAA Football players navigating the mental demands of elite collegiate competition — and the psychological pressures of the path toward professional careers.
Performance coaching for multiple NCAA golfers — building the mental foundations that elite college golf demands and that professional tours require.
Dr. Davis has worked with NCAA Baseball players and MLB players — bringing clinical hypnotherapy and performance coaching to a sport where the mental game is widely recognized as the final frontier of elite performance.
The same integrated framework that sharpens athletes under championship pressure applies directly to executives navigating high-stakes decisions, leadership demands, and the relentless pressure of performance at the top.
Board of Directors,
Grayson Murray Foundation
Grayson Murray was a two-time PGA Tour winner who took his own life in May 2024. He was 30 years old. His family founded the Grayson Murray Foundation in his memory, dedicated to raising awareness of mental health and addiction challenges and funding innovative services and research for those who need help but may not have the financial means to access it.
Dr. Davis serves on the Foundation's Board of Directors — bringing his clinical expertise in psychiatry and his deep experience in the world of professional golf together in service of the mission Grayson envisioned: ensuring that support is accessible to anyone who wants it.
For Dr. Davis, this work is personal. The mental health crisis in elite athletics is not abstract — it is present in locker rooms, on leaderboards, and in the silence of athletes who struggle alone. His commitment to destigmatizing mental health conversations, both in his clinical practice and through the Foundation, runs through everything he does.
"Dr. Davis is a Harvard-trained, board-certified psychiatrist with advanced performance coach training, specializing in mental coaching for PGA Tour players and elite athletes. A passionate advocate for mental health awareness and destigmatization, dedicated to breaking down barriers and fostering supportive spaces for mental wellness conversations."
The intersection of elite athletic performance and mental health is not a paradox — it is the reality of competition at the highest level. Dr. Davis's clinical work and his Foundation service exist on the same continuum: helping high performers access the mental support that makes both excellence and wholeness possible.
Part of the
Elion Network
Dr. Davis is a member of the CAPE (Center for Athletic Performance Enhancement) team, founded by Julie Elion — widely regarded as the most influential sports psychologist in professional golf.
Julie Elion built CAPE into the performance coaching operation behind Wyndham Clark's U.S. Open, Stephan Jaeger's breakthrough win, and PGA Tour Champion's Valero Texas Open victory. When Dr. Davis heard Elion on a podcast, he was struck by how similarly they approached their work — helping the whole person first, and letting the performance follow. He reached out. She hired him immediately.
Within weeks of joining the CAPE team, Dr. Davis was working with a PGA Tour player who went on to win — an engagement that went, in Dr. Davis's own words, "zero to 60 in three weeks." The work was covered extensively by the PGA Tour, Forbes, and international press, establishing Dr. Davis as a documented presence at the highest level of the sport.
"The minute I met him I knew he was right for this."
"She helps the whole person, and the golf tends to follow. We spoke, and our styles are so similar. She's given me some pearls along the way."
Where Medicine
Meets Mastery
Dr. Ryan Davis is a Harvard-trained, board-certified psychiatrist, certified clinical hypnotherapist, and elite performance coach based in Beverly Hills. He is a member of the CAPE (Center for Athletic Performance Enhancement) performance team.
Mentored by Julie Elion — who built CAPE into the leading performance coaching operation in professional golf — Dr. Davis brings a rare combination of clinical depth and coaching precision that no other practitioner offers: psychiatric medicine, certified hypnotherapy, and elite performance coaching in a single integrated framework.
As a 3-time marathon runner and an obsessed golfer himself, Dr. Davis understands the mental demands of elite sport from the inside. He brings that lived experience into every client relationship. Dr. Davis also maintains a separate clinical psychiatric practice in Beverly Hills for patients seeking comprehensive psychiatric care.
Heard On
The Exponential Athlete
Dr. Davis joined The Exponential Athlete podcast to go deep on the hidden mental health crisis facing elite athletes — and what it actually takes to build the resilience that holds under championship pressure.
Drawing on his unique position as both a board-certified psychiatrist and elite performance coach, he shares his framework for improving mental resilience, achieving peak performance, and the role clinical hypnotherapy plays in unlocking what traditional coaching cannot reach.
The Subconscious Edge
Is Available to You.
Dr. Davis works with a select number of clients in person in Beverly Hills or virtually, worldwide. Coaching, hypnotherapy, or fully integrated — the path starts below.
Start the
Conversation.
Every engagement begins with a conversation. Tell Dr. Davis a little about yourself, what you're working on, and what you're looking for — and he'll be in touch to explore whether this work is the right fit.
Sessions are available in person in Beverly Hills, or virtually by phone or video — worldwide.
Beverly Hills, CA 90212