Daniel Nishina , LPC

Daniel Nishina is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Oregon with five years of clinical experience. He supports people facing stress and anxiety, relationship and family conflicts, trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, grief, anger, self-esteem struggles, career challenges, depression, and compassion fatigue. Daniel offers an approach shaped by varied training and hands-on work across several therapeutic orientations, combining humanistic relation-centered care with action-oriented methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, narrative work, and somatic practices.

He attends to each person within their family, social-cultural, and socioeconomic context, and has recently placed greater emphasis on understanding and treating the impacts of trauma. Daniel’s background includes living in Japan for fourteen years and more than thirty years devoted to the practice of aikido, experiences that inform his perspective on resilience, discipline, and embodied awareness.

Daniel believes people possess an innate capacity to move toward balance, and that beginning counseling is a step toward activating that tendency. His work weaves top-down exploration of thoughts, beliefs, and personal narratives with bottom-up attention to bodily experience and sensation. He aims to cultivate a therapeutic relationship grounded in trust, inquiry, and honesty so that change begun in sessions can carry forward into daily life.