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David's Professional Vita
DAVID W. DONALDSON, Ph.D., M. Div.
LICENSED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST
SUMMARY
Practicing psychologist for over 40 years; individual, couple and group therapy, marital and sexual problems, extended family conflicts, depression, anxiety, panic, pain, anger, sexual abuse, phobias, Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and stress-related problems.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Graduate School of Psychology, Fuller Seminary, Pasadena, CA 1969.
M.A., California State College at Los Angeles, 1965.
B.A., California State College at Los Angeles, 1963.
M.Div., Denver Seminary, 1957.
B.A., Rockmont College, 1954.
POST-DOCTORAL TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
EYE MOVEMENT DESENSITIZATION AND RESTRUCTURING (EMDR)
Beginning and advanced training.
Served as assistant trainer.
DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER
Former Clinical Director, Genesis Program for DID patients at Centennial Peaks
Hospital Lewisville, CO, and Porter Hospital, Denver, CO.
SEX THERAPIST
Certified by the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists.
TRAUMA THERAPIST
Trained with the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, Inc.
CONSULTING EDITOR, Psychotherapy, Research and Practice (a Journal of the
American Psychological Association).
PAST PRESIDENT, Colorado Chapter of the International Society for the Study of
Dissociation.
ORDAINED MINISTER
American Baptists - Served as Minister of Counseling at the American Baptist
Counseling Center, Los Angeles, 1965-1967.
MEMBERSHIPS
American Psychological Association
American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists
Ministers' Counsel of the American Baptist Convention
Dr. Donaldson was born in Missouri. He spent his elementary and high school years in Grants Pass, OR where his father was a dairy farmer. His early interests were athletics, singing and spirituality. He financed his undergraduate education by singing and by working in Oregon sawmills. In college and graduate school, he held various student body offices. He has been in private practice in Denver since 1972. His professional interests have focused on the integration of spirituality and psychology.
He has a son and four daughters, ten grandchildren - and counting. In addition to his private practice David and his wife Faith Donaldson work as a therapy team with couples, and lead retreats on spirituality.
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