Relationships are the foundation of our lives – especially our most intimate relationships and our relationship to our own self. When they are going well, the world seems like a brighter place of potential, similarly when they are rocky, they can darken many aspects of our lives and block our possibility.

Hello! My name is Daniel and I am passionate about working with individuals, couples, and other dyads. My goal is to help you empower your relationships: to your most loved ones, to the world, and most importantly, to your own self.

Leveraging creativity, curiosity, accountability, and a strengths-based perspective, I aim to help you identify your own unique path towards navigating your life and relationships, while nurturing the awareness you need to be in integrity with your values, goals, and desires. I hold my clients’ own autonomy, deep inner wisdom and desire for a life of personal authenticity, joy and connection at the forefront.

With a style that is caring, collaborative and compassionate, I provide self and relational empowerment practices that can: improve your communication skills, expand your ability to deeply understand yourself and others, traverse conflict more successfully, move towards feeling more confident and comfortable within your own self, nurture deeper intimacy and sexual potential, increase your awareness of your emotional landscape, become more loving & compassionate towards all of who you are, find more pleasure & play, and become empowered in your life and your relationships.

In couples therapy, I work through an attachment-based lens, helping partners excavate the needs found underneath their conflicts. By identifying and shifting unhelpful patterns that are keeping a couple stuck, we reimagine new, life-giving ways of doing relationship and build skills that create a more fulfilling heart-centered connection. Additionally, I support couples in enhancing emotional and sexual intimacy and becoming more present, secure and connected to both themselves and towards each other.

As a yoga & meditation teacher and body-worker of over 16 years, I often integrate somatic practices – including mindfulness, meditation, ayurveda, yoga, and embodiment techniques – into my therapeutic approach when beneficial for my clients.

Some areas of my interest are:

• Desire, Arousal, & Pleasure
• Sacred Sexuality & Tantra
• Embodiment, Somatic & Nervous System Work
• Couples Therapy
• Sex Therapy & Intimacy Coaching
• Conflict, Communication, & Emotional Intelligence
• Building Healthy Long Term Relationships
• Monogamy, Non-Monogamy, and Polyamory
• Conscious Uncoupling
• Men’s Work & Exploring + Redefining Masculinity
• Self Discovery, Self Empowerment, & Resilience
• Self Love & Self Acceptance
• Parts Work (IFS)
• Boundary Work
• Family of Origin Work
• Grief, Loss, & Life Transitions
• Body, Mind, Spirit Connection
• Spirituality & Religion
• Spiritual Abuse
• Mindfulness & Meditation

I am currently a pre-licensed MFT intern and a certified relationship coach. My therapeutic approach is integrative and holistic, tailored to meet each client’s unique needs. I blend psychodynamic, systemic, attachment-based, somatic, mindfulness, and relational theories, and incorporate parts work and nervous system work into therapy. Working systemically, I take into account the legacies, histories, and societal pressures each person or partner may carry. Working from embodiment, I take into consideration the body’s ability to affirm or block our capacity for joy, pleasure and individual &/or relational connection.

Heart-centered, I bring my own personality to sessions and offer a down-to-earth relatability, warmth, care, support, challenge, and humor. Working with clients of diverse ages and backgrounds, I am LGBTQIA+ affirming, sex-positive, and kink-friendly and am dedicated to a practice of self compassion, social justice, cultural competence, cultural humility, and anti-racism.

I have a large variety of professional trainings and experiences that are integrated into my therapy sessions when beneficial to my clients, including:

• Certified Relationship Coach, The Relationship School
• Certified Ayurvedic Health Counselor, California College of Ayurveda
• 500 hr Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher & Educator
• Licensed Massage Therapist

Some additional Trainings:

• The Embodied Relationship Experience with John Wineland
• Sex, Desire, and Relationship Issues: Interventions with Emily Nagoski and Tammy Nelson
• Comprehensive Internal Family Systems Therapy Course: Clinical Applications of the IFS Model
• Complex Trauma Certification Training
• Religious Trauma, Spiritual Abuse & Cult Recovery Training
• Clinical Applications of Polyvagal Theory in Trauma Treatment with Stephen Porges & Deb Dana
• Couples Institute, Developmental Model Training
• Gottman Methods Couple Therapy Levels 1 & 2
• Robbins-Madanes Institute Core 100 Coaching Training