In order to change, you need to accept where you are.
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 psychodynamic depth, Internal Family Systems, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, narrative approaches, and years of pastoral and clinical experience to help the hard things feel workable.
Four ways we can work together
Therapy & Counseling
Individual and family therapy for adults and adolescents: identity, meaning, LGBTQ+ themes, recovery, and moments of transition.
Explore therapyConsulting & Coaching
A structured space for high-functioning people at a decision point: career, leadership, a move, or aligning ambition with meaning.
Learn moreChaplaincy & End-of-Life
Grief, remembrance, and steady support for families around loss, funerals and memorials, across faith and secular traditions.
Learn moreSpeaking & Training
Keynotes, workshops, and CE talks on psychology, identity, and meaning for conferences, teams, and communities.
See the talksBrought 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.
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.
More about Daniel“Danny was an effective planner and keynote speaker for us. He helped facilitate the entire weekend, and he was an engaging, approachable, and dynamic leader.”Chris Dowling