Dan works best with people who are looking to explore or repair their relationship between their thoughts, their emotions, and nervous system. This often looks like someone who feels constantly overwhelmed or out of control by their own emotional reactivity — where feelings take over and the mind is left to catch up — as well as those on the opposite end who persistently override or ignore their own emotional or intuitive responses until relationships and experiences feel numb, distant or overly logical. Whether you're struggling with dysregulation, dissociation, or a learned distrust of your own inner experience, we'll work to rebuild that brain-body connection at a pace that feels safe.
Individually, Dan specializes in working with clients seeking support for men’s mental health, anger and emotional regulation, both survivors and perpetrators of abuse, neglect and violence, clients with borderline type presentations, and dysregulation that requires repairing the brain/body communication and trust. Additionally, Dan works specifically with couples looking to rebuild trust, safety and rapport after acute instances of rupture, violence or abuse.
I work best with people who are looking for therapy that is kind and empathetic, but also structured and direct. Our work can at times be challenging — because the struggles you're bringing deserve more than easy answers or temporary fixes. Together, we'll gently move toward directly approaching and correcting distressing patterns, behaviours, and experiences that have been avoided or tolerated for too long, and give you the tools and the support to work through them rather than around them.
I show up as a collaborative guide: directive and goal-oriented, but always in your corner. Every session aims to leave you with both practical tools and a clearer sense of who you are, what you value, and how to move more fluidly between your inner world and your outer life. If you're ready to stop avoiding the hard stuff — this is a space for that.
Outside of therapy, I enjoy the somewhat clichéd-but-true essentials: time in nature, exercise that at times includes running, powerlifting and formerly high level competition in combat sports., I'm a devoted dog person, probably over-invested in my coffee routine, and happiest at a live music show or art venue. When summer arrives, you'll often find me escaping Vancouver for the beauty of BC's interior.
Daniel has been a Registered Clinical Counsellor for six years, and is specialized in the acute and complex presentations of trauma, anxiety, ocd, and dysregulation. Practising in both community and private practice settings, his training focuses on the integration of somatic and 3rd wave cognitive behavioural approaches to address complex and pervasive effects of trauma can have on the body, and one’s own sense of self. He holds accreditation in dialectical behavioural therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and is a trainer for somatic embodiment therapy. Additionally Dan provides professional consultation and supervision services for other therapists working with complex trauma cases, and delivers workshops to train fellow counsellors in working in both the overt and covert presentations of individual and relational trauma, abuse and emotional regulation strategies.
Degrees:
- Masters of Counselling- City University of Seattle
- Bachelor of Science, University of Victoria - focus on neuropsychology
Relevant Continuing Education:
- Registered Clinical Counsellor - British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors
- Clinical Supervisor- Canadian Clinical Counsellor- Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapies Association (To be completed 2026)
- Certified Dialectical Behavioral Therapy through Association of Psychology Therapies Canada
- Expert training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Certified Safe and Sound Provider - through Unyte Listening Systems
- Trainer- Somatic Embodiment Therapy
- Trained Narrative Therapy - The Vancouver School of Narrative Therapy
- Criminal Victim Assistance Program - Certified Provider
- Residential Historic Abuse Program - Certified Provider
- Medavie- Veterans Affairs Canada - Certified Provider
- Polyvagal-Informed Somatic Embodiment & Somatic IFS
- Trained Group Facilitaor & Group Supervisor with BC Society for Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse.
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