The Rev. Dr. David Davidson-Methot

The Rev Dr David Davidson-Methot was born in Michigan and grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. He attended Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, earning a BA in Humanities with a focus in Comparative Religion. He attending the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, and completed his MDiv in 1979, and was ordained deacon and priest in that same year. He served as Curate at St Paul’s, Walnut Creek, and Interim Rector of the Church our Our Saviour, Placerville before being called as Rector of Emmanuel Church, Grass Valley, where he served from 1983 until 1990, when he accepted the call as Rector and Headmaster of St Patrick’s Church and Parish Day School in Thousand Oaks, a suburb of Los Angeles in Ventura County, from 1990 to 1998. While at St Patrick’s, he returned to school, and in 2000 completed his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara. Since 1998 he has worked primarily in mental health at a variety of agencies in southern California and Arizona. He remains a priest of the Diocese of Los Angeles, while also serving the church as a consultant, psychological evaluator of ministry candidates, and chaplain to clergy. He has also served as part-time priest in charge of congregations in transition in Arizona and, following his return to the Gold Country in 2013, in the greater Sacramento area. Since 2013 he has had a private psychological practice in Auburn.