David Pincus DMH (Doctor of Mental Health)
David Pincus has spent his adult life immersed in matters of the mind and its relationship to the brain. He is interested in how individual human development is shaped by experience and how we can improve our effectiveness and reach our potential. As a Doctor of Mental Health, he is devoted to helping us become our best versions of ourselves, even as we learn to accept that we all fall short to one degree or another. No one is perfect; we all have issues; we always strive to do the best that we can. He has studied how we come to be who we are from many different perspectives: enhancing our imaginations and emotional regulation, the effects of stress on our brains and behavior, the mother-infant attachment process and the critical role that it plays in our development, how the brain, in synchrony with the mind, create each and every outcome in our lives that is possible. To be human is to always learn and improve, and to learn to love and accept ourselves when we inevitably fall short of our full potential. The most important thing is to know what we can do about it.
Dr. Pincus did his doctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, San Francisco, and also spent some time studying neuroscience at Stanford. In his training as a Doctor of Mental Health, he combines a number of perspectives in understanding human behavior: psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, life coaching, the profound importance of high quality relationships in our lives for emotional and physical health, development beginning from infancy through each phase of life cycle, neuroscience, and has integrated all of these into a coherent understanding of human experience. He has earned numerous honors and awards.
He also has learned about himself: being a patient in psychoanalysis so that he could improve his own functioning; improving on his strengths and minimizing his vulnerabilities. This helps him in many ways. Most importantly for you, the better he knows himself the more he can be of service to you.
He has been a highly published author, researcher, teacher, administrator and consultant to colleagues. However, what he loves the most is working with individuals to be more effective at reaching their goals.
Currently, in addition to being a Life Coach, he is Adjunct Faculty at University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University. He is also on the editorial board of a professional journal and collaborates with others in writing professional articles.
Before there was psychotherapy, there were mentors, friends, confidants, family, coaches, and teachers. In all of these, the quality of the relationships we build is what creates the greatest enrichment in our lives. We deeply value these experiences and we can always improve upon the quality of our connections to others. Life coaching is simply another way of being of help to the people in our lives.