When you cultivate the relationship with your Self, you'll become empowered to transform the quality of all your other relationships.
You'll become more authentic, connectable, magnetic, creative and have more substance and depth whenever you're relating.
Over time, your overall wellbeing and functioning improve, and you'll see yourself and relationships not only improving, but thriving. You'll see yourself on the way out of non-nourishing relationships and into nourishing ones. Therapy is a process of empowerment through making what was unconscious conscious, moving from darkness into light.
In the process of facilitating the pink elephant conversations, communication barriers dissolve and the couple often come away feeling closer and more connected.
"Daniel helped us transform patterns that had defined our marriage for decades. His honesty, insight, and ability to help us truly hear one another brought us closer than we had ever been."Couples Therapy Clients
"After 40 years of marriage and ongoing family conflict, Daniel helped us understand the unhealthy dynamics exhausting us emotionally. We communicate more honestly now, feel more connected, and no longer lose ourselves trying to keep everyone else happy."Couples Therapy Clients
"I wish there was a way to change how we are with each other."
Family therapy is about building bridges and melting the frozen hearts by opening lines of communication.
We create an atmosphere of safety and openness conducive to sharing in an honest and authentic way — a far cry from the atmosphere of rising tension and unsafety that freezes communication in its tracks. We dive right into the unexpressed feelings and unresolved issues that had become a wedge of disconnection.
Addiction treatment is based on The Relationship Model of Addiction — a new paradigm for understanding addiction and recovery I developed after 30 years of experience as an addiction specialist.
Unhealthy, non-nourishing relationships are the spawning ground of addiction. The backlog of pain from unmet emotional needs or lack of nourishment is the underlying driving force of all addiction.
"Addiction is not a disease. It is a relationship with a means of relief of pain from unmet emotional needs."
With the means of relief — opening the space for change
Discovering and developing the relationship with your Self
A regimen of relationship training for healthy, nourishing bonds
"Other therapists addressed symptoms, but Daniel helped me connect the dots. For the first time, I understood my relationship with alcohol, my lifelong patterns, and the deeper emotional pain underneath them. The work transformed not only my relationships with others, but my relationship with myself."Former Client
Are you concerned about a loved one in the throes of addiction or another mental health issue? Facing a crisis and don't know what to say or do? Feeling powerless watching someone you love spiraling down, destroying their lives and relationships?
Feel free to set up a brief time to assess your situation and next action steps.
The family comes together to express love and support, helping their loved one seek help. It's a structured process that shines light on denial and breaks the code of silence perpetuating the addiction.
Family members share their feelings, painful memories, and how relationships have been impacted, then rehearse what they'll say. Afterwards, the loved one responds to what was shared.