Welcome, I’m Dan…
Melbourne-based clinical psychologist with an interest in embodied approaches to trauma healing and mental health care.
Services
I run a private practice in the vibrant arts precinct of Collingwood Yards, providing mental health care for local creative, Queer, and culturally diverse communities.
I also offer focused courses of online and in-person trauma psychotherapy for adults, centred within a Deep Brain Reorienting approach, as well as supervision and personal sessions for DBR-trained therapists.
My services are grounded in 20 years of clinical experience and emphasise somatic and neuroscientifically guided practices that support the embodiment of our natural healing processes.
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A core focus of my work at Collingwood Yards is supporting the mental health and wellbeing of emerging artists, drawing on my experience counselling students at the Victorian College of the Arts and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.
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I’m a proud member-supporter of the LGBTIQA+ community and offer mental health care that is affirming of people’s diverse genders, sexualities, neurotypes, and relationships.
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I have substantial experience working with clients from diverse cultural backgrounds and am committed to ongoing learning in culturally safe and responsive practice.
Deep Brain Reorienting
Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) is a neuroscience-informed mind-body treatment for trauma-related conditions, developed by Dr Frank Corrigan.
Embedded within an attuned therapeutic relationship, DBR helps people to heal from emotional shock, attachment wounding, and other adverse experiences that are continuing to impact on their mental health, wellbeing, or relationships.
It tends to be well tolerated by clients as it doesn’t require them to identify or talk in-depth about the underpinning experience, and is based on a neuroscientifically guided sequence that minimises the risk of overwhelming distress during processing.
DBR has demonstrated a strong effect size in the preliminary findings of an ongoing treatment trial for PTSD, and may also be helpful for other clinical presentations that have adverse events or attachment wounds at their origin.
To learn more, explore the DBR website or watch this interview with Frank Corrigan.
Qualifications & Training
My qualifications include a professional doctorate in clinical psychology, Board-approved supervisor status, and recognition as a Fellow of the APS College of Clinical Psychologists.
I’m also DBR Consultant-in-Training, a certified practitioner of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and have extensive training in somatic movement education.
