40+ years empowering the transformation of relationships
What makes Daniel unique is his focus on making more and deeper connections and on creating healthy, nourishing and intimate relationships. His model applies to platonic intimacy — all inner circle relationships including life partners or lovers, husbands, wives, parents, children, siblings, extended family, or friends.
He believes that all the problems that people bring to therapy are relationship-sourced and that the cause is the cure. Primary relationships, past and current, that fail to provide adequate emotional nourishment are the cause — and teaching people how to create nourishing relationships is the cure.
He views connection, communication and conversation as art forms that require an understanding of the co-creative process and the practice and honing of essential relationship-building skills.
His Relationship Model of Addiction is based on the premise that addiction is not a disease, but a relationship with a means of relief from pain from unmet emotional needs — and that non-nourishing relationships are the spawning ground of addiction.
I'm the "relationships guy."
I never had to wonder about what I was going to do with my life. I chose the field of therapy at the ripe old age of 21 — it was a no-brainer. Therapy with a central focus on relationships was what I was most interested in, what I would enjoy the most, be best at, and was most passionate about.
I'm a natural-born relater off the streets of Brooklyn — ready to connect with anyone, anytime, anywhere, about anything.
I've been studying relationships since I was five years old. Back then, I was already noticing the stark difference between being around people who were close and connected versus those who were disconnected and at odds. The tension was palpable. This early sensitivity became my compass.
When it came to emotions and relationships, I always trusted my senses and intuition. I had a relationship with my Self but didn't know I had one until much later in my life. I was always talking to myself about what I saw happening in the relationships around me. My laser-sharp attunement became my life's work. It was what I was most interested in, enjoyed the most, and was best at.
"All the work I do is about empowering the transformation of relationships by strengthening the relationship with your Self. You transform your relationships with others by transforming the relationship with your Self. You can't connect with others if you're not connected."
It doesn't matter what you've been through in your life, how nourishing or traumatizing your past relationships were or current ones are — it is always possible for you to learn the art, develop skills, and begin manifesting your co-creative potential. It will always be possible to make your dream of having an inner circle of nourishing relationships come true.