Organizations and speaking
Bringing attachment intelligence into your organization.
Speaking, clinical team training, and culture consulting, grounded in a decade of building mental health organizations from the inside.
Licensed
LMFT, California
Certified
IAT attachment clinician
Experience
10+ years in adolescent treatment
Leadership
Director of Culture, 10+ sites
Teams and organizations
Clinical training and culture consulting
Burnout in mental health organizations isn’t a time management problem. It’s an attachment and regulation problem.
As Director of Culture at Ascend Healthcare, Daniel builds and oversees clinical programming across a growing network of residential and outpatient facilities, and develops the staff training and supervision that shape how care is delivered at scale. This work is for clinical directors, executive teams, and graduate training programs who want an outside perspective from someone building from the inside.
Areas of focus
- Attachment-informed clinical culture
- Therapeutic programming for residential and outpatient settings
- Supervision structures that support secure functioning
- Team regulation and co-regulation skills
- Clinical director and leadership coaching
- Bringing family systems work into residential programs
Recent training
- Delivered CEU training in integrative attachment therapy for licensed clinicians.
- Facilitates an ongoing parent and teen series at Ascend Healthcare, grounded in The Way Back Home.
Speaking and media
Keynotes, talks and podcasts
Daniel speaks on attachment science, adolescent mental health, and the meeting point of contemplative practice and nervous system regulation, with clinical depth and a story-driven style shaped by a decade of work with teens and families.
Signature topics
- Attachment science for clinicians: the neurobiology of safety in the therapeutic relationship
- Meditation and emotional regulation: how contemplative practice builds nervous system capacity
- Building secure teams: attachment principles for staff culture, retention, and burnout
- Teen mental health and the family system
- Men, fathers and attachment: the underrepresented territory at the heart of family repair
Recent speaking
- Led a session for LAUSD educators on adult regulation and its role in student mental health.
- Presented on meditation technologies and nervous system regulation at a national mental health conference.