About David
Dr. David Goodman helps people facing phobias alongside stress, anxiety, depression, and a wide range of life challenges. He is a Wisconsin psychologist with nearly three decades of experience.
He works with adults and focuses on practical steps to reduce fear and improve daily functioning. He uses a mix of approaches that fit each person’s needs. Sessions are straightforward and conversational.
He explains ideas in plain language and helps people practice new skills between meetings.
Background and approach
Assessment is part of the process. Dr. Goodman uses an electronic testing tool to map concerns and track progress over time.
That gives both the client and him clear feedback about what is changing. Telehealth has been part of his practice for several years, and he offers phone, video, chat, and text-based sessions. He aims to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life and to keep follow-up work practical and doable.
His background includes long-term clinical work in Wisconsin and professional registration as a WI Psychologist, number 2581-57. He draws on cognitive-behavioral ideas and attachment-informed perspectives to help people change patterns that keep fears and avoidance alive.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose valued actions anyway. It focuses on learning small steps that reduce avoidance and increase meaningful activity, which can be useful for phobias and anxiety. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical strategies to change patterns of thinking and behavior that maintain fear and avoidance. It often uses gradual exposure tasks and homework to test new behaviors between sessions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences, then suggest which methods to try first. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is helping and what feels workable for the client.
Online formats accommodate different needs and schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and guided exposure work. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, tracking progress, and arranging brief coaching between sessions. These options aim to make therapy easier to keep up without changing the clinical focus.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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