Posts Tagged ‘psychology careers’

New Professional Psychology Web Site

August 25th, 2009

what's the time?I have decided to create more separation between my personal activities and my professional ones on the internet. This is mostly because the field of psychology is very conservative and the people involved tend to have a lot of misgivings about any personal facts about a therapist being lumped together with their professional presentation.

There is also a benefit to me in creating a separate web space for my professional presence, and that is that there are fewer compromises in the way I am able to represent myself both as a person and as a psychotherapist. In the past I have tried to keep any portrayal of my personal involvements toned down enough that someone looking for my CV would not be confused, while also toning down the presentation of my professional activities so that I don’t end up looking like I’m a shallow and boring person.

So from this point on I will be adding any updates about my professional development and activities within the field of psychology to my new, strictly professional web site over on the Chicago Psychology community web site. You can find me here: Chicago Psychotherapist David Godot.

That will allow me to post here more freely about my hobbies, fun activities, art, etc. I think this will afford me a much nicer balance. This way, anyone who wants to know about me as a psychological professional will have no trouble finding out everything they want to know all in one place, and then if they choose to look into my personal life it’s all right here for the taking. This way you can find out how boring I am with maximum efficiency!  ;)

This will also give me more freedom to just have fun with my personal web site. I can talk about art, products I’m using, shows and cultural events I go to, my web projects, vacations, and anything else.

Planning for the future

July 21st, 2009
Hong Kong International Finance Center
Photo by: Swisscan

For the several years that I have been completing my doctoral training in clinical psychology at the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago, I have been planning to open my own private group practice once I have received my license. This summer I am preparing to take the NCC exam to receive the Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) license in Illinois so that I can practice at the Master’s level over the next couple of years while writing my dissertation and developing my internship options.

I see my background as a web programmer and internet marketer as being invaluable to my future career path, because the people I respect the most have consistently told me that marketing a private psychotherapy practice is the most difficult part of the business. And people are increasingly finding the services they need by searching the internet, rather than checking phone books, asking their doctors or clergymen, etc. So one of my key strategies for achieving success as a psychotherapist and as a business owner will be to market my counseling business online.

I recently wrote an article for the Thrive Learning Institute about the importance of using the principles of internet marketing to promote offline businesses. This is a topic I may be writing about more on this web site, because it is something that I am and will be working very hard on over the coming years.