I am licensed in Oregon with 5 years of professional work experience. I have experience in helping clients with stress and anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, & trauma and abuse. My training and practical experience has been eclectic, touching on approaches including humanistic (relation-centered), action-centered, cognitive behavioral, narrative, and somatic. I also include in my grasp of any client appreciation for their family, social-cultural, and socioeconomic context. More recently my focus includes some emphasis on the impact of trauma. I have lived in Japan for 14 years of my adult life, as well as spent 30+ pursuing the practice of aikido, a Japanese martial art.
Philosophy and Approach
Every person has the natural capacity and tendency to heal and return to a healthy equilibrium. A person considering counseling is already making the first step of exercising that tendency. I believe that “loosening up” and releasing the many things we hold, particularly unconsciously, allow us to activate that capacity and return to, or discover, a healthier state of being. Top-down, this would involve uncovering our various thought patterns, reactions, and story that we have about ourselves. Bottom-up, it involves noticing and feeling - the various ways our body is in relation to how we are mentally. I hope to cultivate a relationship with each client to embody trust, safety, inquiry, and honesty, so that healing change can start in the therapy room and extend into one’s life.
Additional areas of focus: Addictions, Grief, Anger management, Self esteem, Career difficulties, Depression, Compassion fatigue
OR LPC C7318
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Daniel has helped me work through a very difficult life change and build on my ability to manage anxiety along the way. He approaches our sessions with a balance of listening and offering perspective that works well for me.
Written on Mar 04, 2024 after therapy with Daniel for 3 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, and coping with life changes
Dan is good and identifying and helping with core issues. I've enjoyed working with him
Written on Feb 13, 2024 after therapy with Daniel for 5 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, grief, bipolar disorder, and adhd
Very helpful
Written on Jan 11, 2024 after therapy with Daniel for 1 month on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, self esteem, anger management, coping with life changes, and adhd
Amazing guy! Very understanding and genuinely cares.
Written on Oct 14, 2023 after therapy with Daniel for 1 month on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, and coping with life changes
Daniel is a really sweet guy who knows how to get you to think about what’s really going on and focusing back on what might be causing the issues
Written on Sep 25, 2023 after therapy with Daniel for 1 month on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, self esteem, anger management, and coping with life changes
Mr. Nishina. He’s a very great listener and has no judgment for whatever your circumstances are. He also gives you ways to combat those circumstances that you have that are potentially unhealthy and I appreciate that a lot.
Written on Sep 16, 2023 after therapy with Daniel for 3 weeks on issues concerning depression, addictions, relationship issues, family conflicts, intimacy-related issues, eating disorders, sleeping disorders, parenting issues, self esteem, anger management, compassion fatigue, and adhd