I’m a psychologist with expertise in depth psychology, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, psychological testing, trauma, and hypnosis.
Related to, but separate from my work, I occupy myself with esoteric philosophy, poetry, jazz, and computer science.
My primary work currently is at Psych Lab Psychology Center in Long Beach, California. Psych Lab is a teaching practice where I have spent the last number of years training associate therapists in a comprehensive and integrative model of person-centered, psychoanalytic, attachment-based psychotherapy. I am the clinical director and primary supervising psychologist there, which does not allow me to see many patients for weekly psychotherapy, so I primarily meet with patients for evaluation and treatment planning sessions to help them get started in a therapy that will lead to deep and lasting change.
More information on my work and professional writings:
Psychologist David Godot, Psy.D.
I started this site as a way to focus and share my interest in the process of life: the care and maintenance of body and mind, the pursuit of community, and the artistry of thought.
This is an experiment of “writing in public” in an intimate way, seeing if I can recapture some of the magic and connection lost to the enshittification of the internet and, if we’re being honest, of society as a whole.
As a graduate student in the early 2000s, I ran an awesome blog called Way To Go, Godot! I wrote on the topics most interesting to me at the time, a lot of issues related to well-being, pop psychology, and some facets of professional psychology I was just learning about.
This blog gave way over time to my desire to build a “professional” website that would gain notoriety, win me jobs and admirers, attract clients, etc., so many of these posts were hidden or appropriated. Occasionally, I’d poke my head out from the business of working-life to write a new blog post, always enjoying it and wondering what happened to those easy days of public self-expression. I’ve resurrected the old posts here, even though my thinking has evolved quite a bit over the past 15 years, because I enjoy my past self for what it was.