David Levit, Ph.D., ABPP, SEP, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Amherst, MA since 1989. He is a Diplomate in Psychoanalysis and in Clinical Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) -- exceedingly rare dual board certifications. He is a Fellow at the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis and a Fellow at the American Academy of Clinical Psychology. He is also a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. He is Faculty and Supervising Analyst at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis (MIP) and Co-Founder, Chair, and Faculty of the MIP Postgraduate Fellowship-West Program. He is Instructor in Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and former Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts Medical School. He is guided by a psychodynamic perspective with a contemporary relational orientation, offering both psychotherapy and psychoanalysis while integrating Somatic Experiencing. He works with a wide range of people from college-aged through older adults, addressing negative or vulnerable self-image, depression, anxiety, relationship problems, losses, and life transitions. His published scholarship in Psychoanalytic Dialogues (2018, 2022) provides theoretical foundations for SE-psychoanalytic integration. He also teaches at Austen Riggs Center.