Alex Gonçalves,Ph.D.


About

I am a licensed psychologist in Pennsylvania, have a private practice, and I'm also engaged in the residential treatment of eating disorders.

I hope you find the information on this site to be useful and interesting. We are living in challenging times. And yet, whatever arises doesn't need to be faced alone. I'm wishing you peace and good health.

Thoughts about this site

I could have easily used one of the many services available to create a slick, professionally designed site. I've done it before and I've chosen not to take that path this time. Instead, I'm using the building of this site as a means of fostering brain health by developing new skills...like website design. I'll be emphasizing hand-crafting the site and maintaining a simple, clean design.

None of us are just one thing. I'm now playing with being a website designer in addition to being a psychologist.

Diversity

In my life and work, I've developed enormous respect for both our common humanity and the huge varieties of human experience. I strive to be mindful of how my own privileges and disadvantages (e.g, profound hearing loss) may affect my interactions with people who have different life experiences.

As I note at the top of the page, my pronouns are he/him/his. Information about why this is important to share can be found at mypronouns.org

It's a big world out there. It's quite remarkable, really.