Sagacity Counseling was born from a deep belief in justice, access, and community.

This organization supports affirming and accepting care of all kinds.

I support clients with healthy sexuality (kink and BDSM informed), LGBTQI living (including transitions - pre, post, and non-operative), religious trauma, academic success and work-related stress.

Chey Davis, MA, MSW

  • Chey Davis a Black woman wearing a headscarf and a white hoodie standing in a sunlit room

    Here. . .

    I am a former theater kid, a forever English Major, and perpetual student. Blerd, through and through. Trekkie, Whovian, MCU lover.

  • Chey Davis a Black woman smiling directly into the camera with a headscarf

    There. . .

    23 year veteran of College English teaching. Teaching social justice under the guise of English. Unendingly curious. Spartan. Go Green! Traveler. Perpetual learner.

  • Chey Davis a Black woman embracing a red hen

    Everywhere.

    Fiber artist. Poet. Painter. Perpetual Creator.

Chey Davis

Education

MSW Clinical Social Work - Michigan State University (May 2022)

MA English Language and Literature - Central Michigan University (2003)

            Thesis: Basic Writing Beyond the Errors: A Study of Basic Writing Portfolios

            Plan B Paper: “The Maturation of Representation: Irish Drama”

BA Creative Writing and Critical Theory - Michigan State University (1999)

Licensure

LLMSW # 6851114432

 

Supervisor

Nedra Cannon, LCSW

License # 6801086618

 

 

Teaching Experience

2007 - 2022

Delta College - University Center, MI

2001 - 2007

Lansing Community College - Lansing, MI

 

Presentations

“Seeing Beyond: Using Photovoice to Extend Academic Thought to Everyday Life” International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry – Virtual (May 2022)

‘ “Call Me Rambo”: Multiple Consciousness and Identity as Shields Against Oppression for Black Women Living with Mental Illness,’ International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry - Virtual (May 2021)

Developing the Skills of Imagination for an Anti-Racist Future - With Charla Cannon Yearwood, LCSW, Race and Social Work Symposium, University of Houston - Graduate College of Social Work (April, 2021)

Teaching Racial Justice in the Classroom (K-12) National Writing Project and Saginaw Schools Professional Development series (June 2021)

Graduate Adventure Therapy and Counseling -- “Urban” intensive faculty at Prescott College - Where the Mythos meets the road — Radical Self-Awareness in the Helping Professions Prescott, AZ (January 2019)

Keynote - Radical Self-Awareness in the Helping Professions, Prescott College, Prescott, AZ (January 2019)

“Intersectionality -- A Primer,” Association for Experiential Education - Montreal, QC, CA (November 2017)

 

“Pools, Parks, and Prohibitions: Undoing the History of Exclusion,” Association for Experiential Education - Minneapolis, MN (November 2016)

 

Community College Master Teachers Institute at the University of Washington-Seattle (July 2016)

 

Community College Master Teachers Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (June 2016)

 

“Deliberative Democracy in the Community College,” Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting (with inaugural cohort of the Kettering-Center for the Study of Community Colleges - June 2016)

 

“Making the Implicit, Explicit. Again,” Transitions and Transactions III - Borough of Manhattan Community College (With Joseph Lewis - April 2016)

 

“Diversity is an Inside Job,” Association for Experiential Education - Portland, OR (October 2015)

 

“Teacher/Writers: Retaining our creative lives,” (facilitator) Michigan English Association State Meeting - Davenport University-Grand Rapids (October 2015)

 

“Re-Embodied Cognition in the Community College Classroom,” Equity in the Classroom Conference - University of Michigan (April 2015)

 

“Re-Embodied Cognition and Experiential Education,” Association for Experiential Education - Chattanooga, TN(November 2014)

 

“Re-Embodied Cognition for Women Worldwide,” Women’s World Congress - Hyderabad, India (August 2014)

 

“Making the Implicit, Explicit,” Transitions and Transactions II - Borough of Manhattan Community College (With Joseph Lewis - April 2014)

 

“Privilege,” Equity in the Classroom Conference - Saginaw Valley State University (March 2014)

 

Publications 

“Sagacity at the Crossroads,” Prepress, with University of Illinois - Champlain

“The Indictment” in Really System (January 20, 2017 edition)

Strike Through (Chapbook 2016)

The Body: A Burden too Heavy to Hold (Chapbook 2015)

After Ferguson (Mourning Glory Publishing 2015)

Sweet Cyanide Center (Chapbook 2014)

Thank You (Chapbook 2013)

Collection (Binge Press 2009)

Bad Dog Behaviour (Chapbook 2007)

 

Community Service

YWCA GLBR Board of Directors (Fall 2016 - May 2018)

YWCA GLBR Board Secretary (January 2018 - May 2018)

YWCA GLBR Racial Justice Committee Chair (Fall 2016 - May 2018)

Association for Experiential Education Board President (November 2019 - June 2020)

Association for Experiential Education President-Elect (November 2018 - 2019)

Association for Experiential Education Board Member-at-large (November 2017 - November 2020)

Chair of the Social Justice Task Force, Association for Experiential Education (March 2018 - May 2019)

 

Vice-President of American Association of University Professors (AAUP), Delta College (2018)

Delta College Faculty Association, Division Representative, Delta College (2018-2020)

MEA Executive team, Delta College (2019)

MEA organizing team, Delta College (2018)

Michigan State University

Research Scholar - MSU School of Social Work (2019 to 2022)