Come back to yourself.
Daniel Peterson helps individuals, families, and audiences navigate identity, emotion, and meaning, in the therapy room and on the stage.
Behavior makes sense once you understand the part of us it's trying to protect.
Daniel meets people, and rooms, with curiosity instead of judgment, drawing on Internal Family Systems, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and years of pastoral and clinical experience to help the hard things feel workable.
Three ways we can work together
Therapy
Individual and family therapy for adolescents and adults, with care for identity, emotional regulation, substance use, and high-risk youth.
Explore therapySpeaking & Training
Engaging, evidence-informed talks and CE workshops for conferences and teams, on parts work, identity, and reaching defended youth.
See the talksFaith & Meaning
Non-denominational faith and officiant services, and care for identity, deconstruction, and the big questions, from someone who has lived them.
Learn moreBrought to the stage
Parts Work with Teens
Using IFS to build insight and reduce emotional reactivity in adolescents.
Who Am I Without This?
Identity formation in high-risk youth, and helping them build a self that lasts.
Faith, Identity & Belonging
Affirming, meaning-centered care at the intersection of faith and identity.
A rare fluency in two languages.
Daniel Peterson is a Clinical Mental Health Counselor with master's degrees in theology, divinity, and counseling. He served as an ordained Catholic priest for four years before moving full-time into clinical care, and now works at Primary Children's Hospital.
That background lets him hold both the clinical and the human, the symptom and the soul, with equal seriousness, whether he's with a client or a room of fifteen hundred.
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