Daniel Gaustad

Daniel Gaustad

I provide Somatic Experiencing sessions for individuals and couples who want to reduce accumulated stress, improve nervous system regulation and address trauma from an embodied perspective.

I also facilitate ongoing groups for those who want to do this within a supportive community.

Individual, couples and group sessions are available via Zoom and in-person (San Francisco, CA, Montara, CA and Minneapolis, MN).

In our time together, our work may explore:

• Slowing down
• Creating healthy boundaries
• Developing empowerment and agency
• Knowing self within the context of culture and society
• Expanding beyond binary thinking
• Cultivating right use of power
• Expressing healthy aggression
• Listening to and honoring our bodies
• Increasing our capacity to hold discomfort
• Connecting with joy and curiosity

My work with individuals, couples and groups draws from Somatic Experiencing, Polyvagal Theory, Family and Systemic Constellations, Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga and a variety of trauma-informed practices and mindfulness practices.

My work is also inspired by my deep curiosity about people, relationships between people and systems of all kinds and by my love of nature, hiking, surfing and music improvisation.

I have completed Peter Levine’s Eye of the Needle Training which focuses on working with near death experiences, anesthesia states and medical traumas. And, I have completed Peter Levine’s Depression, Aggression and Life Force Master Class. I have also received additional training in Relational Development Rupture and Repair and Concussions and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Specialties

• Adults
• Adults abused as children
• Chronic Pain/Fibromyalgia
• Complex PTSD
• Developmental Trauma
• Medical Procedure Trauma
• Motor Vehicle Collisions
• Perpetrators of Sexual Abuse
• Perpetrators of Domestic Violence
• Birth Trauma
• Relational/Relationship Issues
• Spirituality
• Intergeneration Trauma
• Racial Trauma
• Anti-Oppression Trauma Resolution
• Systemic Trauma
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Domestic Violence
• Sexual Abuse