About Daniel
Daniel Nishina is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oregon with five years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and struggles with self-esteem. He also supports clients coping with relationship and family conflict, trauma and abuse, addiction, anger, career questions, and compassion fatigue.
In sessions he combines practical conversation about thoughts and behaviors with attention to how the body responds.
How Daniel works
That means talking through unhelpful thought patterns and noticing physical tension or sensations that show up in day-to-day life. He aims to help people loosen the things they hold onto so they can move toward a more balanced way of living.
Daniel brings a broad background to his work, including many years spent living in Japan and a long personal practice of aikido, a Japanese martial art. This life experience informs his interest in cultural and social context and how those factors shape a person’s story and struggles. He emphasizes a relationship built on trust, honest inquiry, and steady attention.
Therapy is collaborative: he helps people name what matters, try new ways of responding, and practice small changes that add up over time. Sessions can include talking, practical exercises, and awareness of bodily reactions. Daniel works with each person to create a pace and plan that fit their life and goals.
What Daniel works with
The areas below are the ones Daniel selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oregon |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Daniel blends conversational, cognitive-focused work with attention to bodily experience. Cognitive-style approaches involve noticing thought patterns and testing them against everyday experience to reduce distress and improve problem solving. Somatic-informed work attends to sensations and tension in the body, helping people connect how feelings show up physically and learn ways to regulate those reactions.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to identify which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they review what helps, try approaches in session, and adjust the plan as progress and feedback become clear.
Online therapy makes these methods more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and exercises that benefit from seeing body language. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, mood tracking, or follow-up between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and daily life while keeping the same therapeutic focus.
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