Daniel Nishina
Compassionate, practical counseling for family concerns
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Daniel
Daniel Nishina is a licensed professional counselor who practices in Oregon. He uses practical, evidence-based approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the fallout from trauma. Daniel also helps with relationship and family concerns, grief, anger, addictions, career questions, and compassion fatigue.
He speaks English and offers services to clients outside the United States as well. Daniel draws on five years of professional experience and a mix of training that includes humanistic relation-centered work, action-focused methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, narrative approaches, and somatic awareness.
Background and approach
He pays attention to how a person’s family, cultural, and socioeconomic background shapes their struggles. Lately he has emphasized how trauma shows up in both thoughts and the body. In sessions he balances talking about thoughts and stories with noticing bodily responses and practical steps.
He aims to help clients loosen rigid patterns, name recurring reactions, and try small behavioral changes. The style is down-to-earth and collaborative, with an emphasis on building a trusting relationship. Daniel’s personal experience living in Japan and training in aikido inform a calm, embodied presence in his work.
He believes people have a natural capacity to move toward a healthier balance and that therapy is the place to begin that process. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling through the platform’s tools.
Practical approaches for online family and trauma work
Daniel integrates a few evidence-based techniques into his online practice. Cognitive behavioral work focuses on identifying and testing unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and low mood. Somatic awareness involves noticing bodily tension, breath, and movement and using those cues to understand stress and trauma responses.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. He will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they adjust methods over time so the work matches changing needs and produces practical steps to try between sessions.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around family schedules, work, and different comfort levels with face-to-face conversation. Licensed professionals can use these options to maintain continuity of care when life or location makes in-person visits difficult.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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