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 (DBR) approach, as well as professional development consultations 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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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 (DBR) is a neuroscience-informed mind-body treatment for trauma-related conditions, developed by Dr Frank Corrigan.
It’s exhibited a strong effect size with minimal dropouts in the interim findings of a randomised controlled trial for the treatment of PTSD, and may also be helpful for other relational, wellbeing, and mental health concerns that have adverse events or attachment wounds at their origin.
DBR tends to be well tolerated by clients as it doesn’t require them to identify or talk in depth about the underpinning experience. And its neuroscientifically guided sequence minimises the risk of overwhelming distress during processing.
To learn more, explore the DBR website or watch this interview with Frank Corrigan.
-
My professional development services are geared towards mental health practitioners based in Australasia and Southeast Asia who have completed DBR Level 1 or above, and include online and in-person:
DBR consultation groups
Individual supervision
Personal DBR sessions
These services are aligned with the DBR training curriculum and designed to deepen your understanding, application, and embodied practice of DBR while supporting your progression along the DBR Practitioner pathway.
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 a Deep Brain Reorienting Consultant-in-Training and certified practitioner of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, with extensive training in somatic movement education.
