Helping you navigate the mind
Offering telehealth services in CA, FL, VA, & NY
Specializing in clinical and forensic psychology
Dr. Carolyn Godman, Clinical Psychologist
Carolyn Godman, Ph.D., CCHP-MH
Starting therapy takes something out of a person before the first session even begins. You have to decide that whatever you are dealing with is worth naming out loud to a stranger, and then you have to find the stranger. That part is done now.
My work is grounded in approaches with real evidence behind them, and I fit them to the person sitting across from me. No two people arrive with the same history or want the same thing out of the process, so I do not run anyone through a fixed program. We figure out what you are after, and then we build toward it.
Much of my career has been spent with veterans, service members, and first responders. I also work with people living with chronic pain, with those recovering from trauma, with anyone whose life has been reshaped by a serious mental health condition, and with people who have come through a suicidal crisis or spent time incarcerated. That work has been with individuals, with couples, and with families. Across all of it, the same thing holds true. Progress depends far more on whether we work well together than on any particular technique, so I take that part seriously.
I am a psychologist and I hold that role clearly, and I am also a person in the room with you. Those are not in tension. Whatever matters to you belongs in the conversation, and you decide how quickly we get there.
Reach out when you are ready. A question costs nothing, and I am happy to answer one before you commit to anything.
Licensed in California (PSY28831), New York (019200), and Virginia (0810009493). Registered to provide telehealth in Florida (TPPY2883). NPI 1164597043.
Therapy and Psychological Assessment
I see adults eighteen and older. Some come for therapy, some come for an assessment, and some end up doing both.
Assessment makes up a large share of my practice. People come to me when a diagnosis has never quite fit, when memory or thinking has changed in ways that need explaining, or when chronic pain has become as much a psychological problem as a physical one. An evaluation involves interviews, standardized testing, and a written report that answers the question you walked in with. You are welcome to take that report and go, or to stay and work on what it turned up. Both are legitimate.
Therapy runs on a different clock. It can be brief and focused on one problem, or it can go on for as long as it is useful. I am trained in EMDR, and I draw on it when trauma is part of the picture. We will talk in the first session about what you are looking for and how we will know it is working.
Our Mission
Godman Psychological Services exists to make good psychological care reachable for people who have often had trouble getting it. That means treatment chosen for the person rather than the diagnosis, reports written to be understood by whoever needs to read them, and a practice small enough that you are never handed off to someone you have not met.