Beneath the everyday current of your everyday life, there is a Wild Soul awaiting your remembrance. This soul does not wish for you to adapt to and manage life within a narrowly defined society. Rather, this soul is one with the natural world--kin with honeybees, mosses, and landscapes. The soul wishes not for you to adapt to a sick culture, but to root so deeply in your personal truth and authenticity, that the culture itself changes.
Daniel has long abandoned the traditional lenses of psychotherapy that suggest anxiety, depression, and nervous system dysregulation are problems that exist purely on an individual level. While personal traumas and childhood wounds are relevant to the healing process--this is not the end of the story. Instead, Daniel believes that our personal ailments are the symptoms of an ailing culture and ecology. Anxiety is appropriate when the world is on fire.
Thus, Daniel's approach is not simply to help you to heal your personal wounds but to empower you to look deeply inward towards the indomitable truth within you--the kind of truth that guides the salmon upriver and the honeybee to the flower. Daniel knows you are here for a particular purpose that is united with the purpose of the evolving natural world. Daniel is, at heart, an activist. He wishes to change the world.
He will never deny the stark realities of this world. Though neither will he content himself with indulging a victim mentality. He will support you in feeling the unique pain of this ailing culture so you may find the medicine to heal it. He knows that within you is a unique and particular medicine for this world. His deepest desire is to help you to find it.
Daniel's education spans many arenas. Mostly, his work is informed by countless days and hours spent wandering wild landscapes both in solitary communion with the land as well as guiding groups of youth in rites of passage work. A student of dreams, of myth, of meditation, and of ceremony--he considers nature the true healer, he is simply a guide. He has received training from the Animas Valley Institute which is instrumental in his approach. Daniel welcomes clients of all identities and is committed to sex positivity in his work. He lives in Port Townsend, WA but can work remotely with clients across the US and beyond. For more information about his work or to schedule a discovery call, visit his website or contact him directly.