Ex-professor, ex-monk, and ex-ex-pat with over 15 years of clinical experience licensed in both Washington (LMHC) and California (LPCC) but living in Sacramento where I provide mental health counseling, group psychotherapy, couples counseling, psychedelic integration, consultations, mindfulness coaching, and personalized intensive residential retreats or rehab for anyone (over 16 y. o.) sincerely seeking help to achieve personal goals and to live a better life. After 4 years of international experience, over 10 years of graduate school, and another 10 years teaching at SJSU in Psychology and Comparative Religious Studies, I have returned now to my original professional mental health practice.

What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?

First sessions are ideally a friendly and casual exploration of the issues or problems that you are seeking assistance with. Acknowledging the inevitable strangeness and riskiness that anyone works through just to get to that first session -- because it takes courage to trust a stranger, right? It takes courage to do self-work, to look inside; it takes courage to change. So my job is to listen to you, to attend, to pay attention, and maybe to inquire, wonder together, reflect on what I hear, summarize, and keep listening, reflecting, summarizing until you are convinced that I get you -- at least get enough to get to the next session, because I will also need to understand some broad contours of your background, your life, and the circumstances within which we will both be working, and that usually takes longer than just one session.

Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.

Having lived and travelled around the world, I am comfortable with a wide variety of people and faith traditions, and want anyone in need to feel completely at ease and comfortable in my care and practice. Having been around a few blocks, you can count on my empathetic and honest dialogue within a broadly humanistic and person-centered framework.

Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.

LGBTQI (with some exception, see below); military, ex-military, police, or security; government, non-profit or public service; artists, activists (social justice-, political-, eco-, & peace-activists); ex-pats & international development; religiously discordant families/couples, religious conflict, de-conversion, & religious abuse; anyone experiencing existential crisis, loss of meaning in life, spiritual emergency, or moral injury.

About Jeff Danese

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