Introduction to this website.
Psychotherapy is most effective when it is collaborative. Whether you work with me or with a different psychotherapist, I hope you find my website to be helpful.
Please note the following important issues:
I. I don't monitor the site often enough to be able to help someone experiencing a crisis. Please do not send me a message seeking my immediate help.
If you are experiencing a crisis, please call 988, now.
People are there right now to talk with you.
2. The ideas shared on my website are for general education and are not intended to represent therapy or treatment or to replace or undermine anything a treating therapist might have said.
Dr. Alan Goodwin
I am a California-licensed psychologist (license number PSY19421). I've been providing psychotherapy and coaching in my private office in Encino, California since 2003 and I've provided personal coaching via the telephone since 2005. I’m fortunate to have had the opportunity to occupy various roles as a licensed psychologist. From 2006 through 2016, I served as the Director of a clinic at a university, where I supervised the training of doctoral students while also providing psychotherapy and consultation to the campus community.
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