Daniel Adler (he/him)

My Approach to Helping

I practice from a collaborative stance that values your language, knowledge, intuition and experience. Utilizing perspectives from narrative, experiential, emotion-focused, somatic, and mindfulness-based therapies, I will strive to help you craft an experience of life that is empowering, affirming, and grounding. We'll definitely do some talking, and we may also do drawing, journaling, guided meditations, and embodiment practices. Based on my training in systemic therapies, I think about individuals (you!) as part of relational networks and am excited to work with individuals, couples, families and groups.

My Values as a Therapist

Participating in therapy is vulnerable, courageous, and at times, demanding. But you are not on this journey alone. As your therapist, I will stand alongside you as a witness to your lived experiences, and will collaborate with you in developing new ideas for how you want your life story to unfold into the future. One of my favorite quotes, and an idea that I personally strive to live by, comes from Mari Ruti, who says: “The crafting of character is not a matter of perfecting the self, but rather of perfecting the self’s ability to revere its less than perfect incarnations.” With that in mind, I approach therapy with the belief that life is defined by constant change, and that the work of therapy is a nonlinear process of rediscovering, understanding, and grappling with one’s own and others’ imperfect humanity.