Daniel Nishina, LPC

Daniel Nishina is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Oregon with 5 years of clinical experience. He works with clients on stress and anxiety, relationship concerns, family conflict, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, anger, self esteem, career issues, depression, and compassion fatigue. His training is eclectic, drawing on humanistic relation-centered methods, action-centered strategies, cognitive behavioral techniques, narrative approaches, and somatic work to tailor care to each person.

Daniel integrates attention to both thought and body - exploring top-down patterns like beliefs and automatic reactions while also noticing bottom-up physical experience and sensation. He attends closely to each client within their family, social-cultural, and socioeconomic context, aiming to understand how environment and history shape current concerns. In recent practice he has placed greater emphasis on addressing the aftereffects of trauma.

Having lived in Japan for 14 years of his adult life and pursued the practice of aikido for over 30 years, Daniel brings cross-cultural perspective and disciplined embodied practice into his clinical viewpoint. He approaches counseling from the belief that people have a natural capacity to heal and move back toward balance. By helping clients release held tensions and by cultivating inquiry, trust, safety, and honesty in the therapeutic relationship, he supports change that begins in sessions and carries into daily life.