Your body has been trying to tell you something.
Somatic therapy and Brainspotting for men who are burned out, athletes with performance blocks, and people who've tried therapy before — and know something deeper needs to shift.
In-person in New Hope, MN · Telehealth across Minnesota · Insurance and Private pay
You've tried pushing through. You've tried thinking your way out. Maybe you've even done therapy before — and it helped, until it didn't.
The reason things feel stuck isn't a lack of effort or insight. It's that the patterns you're dealing with don't live in your thinking mind. They live in your nervous system — in the body's automatic responses that were built long before you had words for them.
That's where this work is different.
WHO I WORK WITH
Three kinds of stuck.
One approach that reaches all of them.
Successful men who are exhausted and on edge
You’re high-functioning by every external measure. But underneath, your nervous system is running on empty. The drinking, the porn, the scrolling — they’re not character flaws. They’re your system trying to regulate. There’s a more effective way.
Athletes with performance blocks and the yips
Basketball, baseball, distance running — when the thing you’ve trained for starts breaking down in the moment that counts, it’s not a technique problem. It’s a nervous system problem. Brainspotting was built for exactly this.
People whose bodies still hold what the mind has processed
You’ve done the work. You understand where it came from. And your body still reacts like it happened yesterday. Talk therapy reached its limit. Somatic work picks up where it left off.
THE APPROACH
This isn’t talk therapy. It’s nervous system therapy.
Most therapy works top-down — using insight and language to change how you think and feel. That approach has real value. But for trauma, burnout, compulsive patterns, and performance blocks, the problem isn’t in your thinking. It’s in your body’s automatic responses.
Brainspotting accesses the subcortical brain — the part that holds trauma, emotional memory, and survival responses — through specific eye positions. It bypasses the need to talk through every detail, which is why it often produces change faster than traditional approaches.
Learn more about Brainspotting →
Somatic Experiencing works with the physical sensations, impulses, and activation patterns in your body — completing the stress cycles that got interrupted and restoring your nervous system’s natural capacity to regulate.
Together, they address the root level of what you’re dealing with — not just the symptoms.
Why this practice is different
• Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) — Minnesota
• Brainspotting Consultant — Advanced experience and mastery of Brainspotting
• Somatic Experiencing Advanced year student
• MBA with a decade in corporate leadership — a firsthand understanding of the world high-functioning men operate in
• In-person in New Hope, MN · Telehealth across Minnesota
What colleagues say…
Dan is great for clients who feel stuck even though they’ve done the work. He is great for people whose patterns live in their body, not just their thinking.
— Colleague referral
Dan is one of my top referrals for trauma work. He has a calming and comforting presence that helps people in their trauma journey.
— Colleague referral
Ready to work at a level that actually allows you to move on?
The first step is simple. Sign up and we’ll figure out together whether this is the right fit.
In-person · New Hope, MN · Telehealth · Minnesota-wide · Insurance & private pay · $165/session