Daniel Nishina , LPC

Daniel Nishina is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Oregon with five years of clinical experience. He works with people facing stress and anxiety, relationship and family challenges, trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, grief, anger, self-esteem struggles, career questions, compassion fatigue, and other life changes. LPC stands for Licensed Professional Counselor, a credential that indicates training and authorization to provide counseling services.

His clinical training is eclectic, drawing on humanistic relation-centered methods, action-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, narrative approaches, and somatic practices. He also attends to each person’s family, social-cultural, and socioeconomic context when shaping care. More recently he has emphasized the effects of trauma and how it can impact thinking, feeling, and bodily experience.

Nishina’s background includes living in Japan for fourteen years as an adult and more than thirty years engaged in the practice of aikido, a Japanese martial art, experiences that inform his perspective on discipline, embodiment, and cultural context. He holds a philosophy that people have a natural capacity to move back toward balance, and he combines top-down work on thoughts and stories with bottom-up attention to bodily experience. He aims to build a therapeutic relationship grounded in trust, safety, inquiry, and honesty so change in sessions can extend into everyday life.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care with Daniel Nishina

Cognitive behavioral techniques focus on identifying and adjusting unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. These methods are often used to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression by teaching practical skills for managing reactions and building new habits.

Somatic approaches pay attention to bodily sensations and how the body holds stress or traumatic experience. By bringing awareness to physical responses alongside emotions and thoughts, this work can help people process trauma and reduce persistent tension.

Daniel also draws on humanistic, relation-centered practice that emphasizes empathy, respect, and collaboration in the therapeutic relationship. This approach supports personal growth through genuine connection and reflective inquiry.

Determining the right mix of approaches is part of the collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to assess needs, goals, and preferences and adjusts methods over time to find the best fit.

Online therapy offers flexibility and accessibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, family, or travel and to continue care through life transitions, while allowing licensed professionals to meet clients where they are located.