This is where the work actually begins.
Whether you’re a man running on fumes, an athlete whose performance has stalled, or someone whose body is still holding what talk therapy couldn’t reach — you’re in the right place.
THE APPROACH
Getting to the root means working where the root actually is.
Talk therapy changed a lot of lives. It also has a ceiling. When you’ve worked hard to understand your patterns — where they came from, why they make sense — and things still don’t shift, it’s not because you haven’t tried hard enough.
It’s because the nervous system doesn’t speak in insight. It speaks in sensation, activation, and automatic response. That’s the level this work operates.
Brainspotting
Brainspotting locates specific eye positions that correspond to stored trauma and emotional experience in the subcortical brain. By holding attention on that position while staying with internal experience, the brain’s natural processing capacity is activated. You don’t need to narrate every detail. The body leads the work.
Somatic Experiencing
Somatic Experiencing works with the body’s incomplete stress responses — the activation that got interrupted and never had a chance to resolve. By gently tracking sensation and movement in the body, SE helps complete those cycles and restore your nervous system’s natural capacity to regulate.
You’ve been managing. There’s a difference between managing and actually getting better.
You’re good at your job. You show up for the people who depend on you. From the outside, things look fine — maybe even great. But inside, your nervous system is stuck in a state it can’t get out of. Always on edge. Hard to be present. Reaching for something to take the edge off — a drink, a screen, something else — just to get through the night.
What we work on together:
• The constant low-level tension and hypervigilance that never fully turns off
• Compulsive patterns you use to regulate — alcohol, porn, scrolling, overworking
• Emotional reactivity that shows up at home even when work is the problem
• Disconnection from your body, your relationships, and your own needs
• The identity gap between who you are at work and who you want to be everywhere else
FOR MEN
When what you’ve trained for stops working in the moment that counts.
The yips. The block. The flinch you can’t override no matter how many reps you’ve done. Every athlete who’s been there knows it’s not a skill problem. You have the skill. You’ve proven it hundreds of times. But when the moment arrives, something takes over — and it doesn’t respond to thinking harder, focusing more, or pushing through.
Who I work with:
• Baseball — throwing yips, pitching blocks, plate anxiety
• Basketball — free throw blocks, shooting hesitation, game-moment freezing
• Distance running — race anxiety, performance plateaus, body-based burnout
• Other sports and performance contexts — if the pattern fits, reach out
What the work looks like:
• Identifying the specific moment and body state where the block occurs
• Processing the stored activation driving the automatic response
• Restoring your nervous system’s ability to stay regulated under pressure
• Building a consistent pre-performance state you can access on demand
FOR ATHLETES
FOR THOSE IMPACTED BY TRAUMA
You understand it. Your body hasn’t gotten the message yet.
You’ve done the work. Therapy, reading, maybe even significant healing. You know where the patterns came from. You can trace the logic. And still — a sound, a tone of voice, a look on someone’s face — and your system responds like it happened yesterday. Not because you haven’t tried hard enough. Because trauma isn’t stored in the part of the brain you’ve been working with.
What we work on together:
• Chronic hypervigilance, reactivity, and the sense of never feeling fully safe
• Emotional flashbacks and body responses that seem to have no clear trigger
• Numbness, disconnection, or the feeling of being a passenger in your own life
• Patterns in relationships that keep repeating despite your best efforts
• Somatic symptoms — tension, chronic pain, fatigue — with a trauma component
If you’ve been in talk therapy and found it helpful but incomplete — this work is built for exactly that moment. You don’t need to start over. You need a different level of entry.
Simple, transparent, and worth your time.
FEES AND LOGISTICS
Session Fees (Private Pay)
Individual therapy session (55 min) — $165
Extended session (80 min) — $220
Intensive sessions — see the Intensives Page for pricing
Insurance & Payment
Dan currently accepts several insurance plans. In-network plans include BCBS, UCare, Medica, UHC, UMR, and Surest
Private pay accepted. HSA and FSA cards accepted.
A limited number of sliding scale spots may be available — inquire directly.
Location & Format
In-person: New Hope, MN (Minneapolis area)
Telehealth: Available for Minnesota residents
Session length: 55 or 80 minutes
Frequency: Weekly or every other weeks sessions recommended, especially early in the work
Under the No Surprises Act, you have the right to a Good Faith Estimate of expected costs. Ask at any time and one will be provided.
WHAT TO EXPECT
The first session isn’t about fixing anything.
We start by getting oriented. I’ll want to understand what brings you in, what you’ve tried before, and what you’re hoping shifts. You’ll get a sense of how I work and whether it feels like a fit.
Brainspotting and Somatic Experiencing sessions look different from traditional therapy. There’s less talking-through and more attending to what’s happening in your body in real time. Some people find this disorienting at first. Most find it a relief.
Change in somatic work often feels slower on the surface and faster underneath. You may notice shifts in your sleep, your reactivity, your capacity to be present before you can articulate what changed. That’s the nervous system updating.
Step 1
Sign up and schedule your first session.
Step 2
We meet, get oriented, and begin to identify where the work needs to go.
Step 3
The nervous system starts getting the message that things have changed.
Most people tell me the hardest part was sending that first message.
You already know something needs to change.
The work is real, it’s grounded in how the nervous system actually changes, and it’s available now.
In-person · New Hope, MN · Telehealth · Minnesota-wide · Insurance & private pay · $165/session