A marriage counselor can be like an emergency room doctor: anyone can walk in and be in painful crisis. But in marriage counseling two most often come in, sometimes one dragging the other, and sometimes fighting and blaming each other!
Or, the relationship body can come in on life support, rapidly cooling, helpless, lonely. And on occasion only half the relationship can make it in, only half of the marital body can make it in for help right now.
The marriage counselor in any case must be quickly, caringly energized, dedicated to restoring health within this couple, and fairly so to both halves of the relationship.
The marriage counselor, then, must be very well trained, and widely trained, and continuously trained, as the entire range of human emotions and clinical conditions will be presented within his practice. There will be deep sufferings and deep loves. There will be many causes of injury, and many resources of healing. There will be matters of the immediate, and matters of the past; there will be issues of the couple, and issues of the individual. All of this will be swirling clinically and now in interaction with the clinician marriage counselor, who will need every bit of his continuous training.
And, truly, the marriage counselor must be humble. Highly trained, caring, energized, real, and humble, always, in these deep feelings and complexities of the human heart.
Dan tries hard to be such a marriage counselor. He is independently a licensed relationship therapist and mental health clinician for individuals, and he feels these combined clinical skill sets are inseparable for much of the work of marriage therapy. Trained in his Masters at the University of Michigan and in practice for twenty eight years he still quite enjoys his continuous training, feels humbled by the complexity but the hopefulness and the helpfulness of the field, and feels fortunate to be in this helping profession.
For those considering individual therapy Dan has focused interests and expertise in the conditions of depression and anxiety, anger issues, addictions and compulsions, abuse and neglect injuries, and dissociative disorders.
Dan holds therapy provider contracts with many insurance companies including HealthPlus, GM insurances, Cigna, United Healthcare, Value Options, Magellan, Medicare, Aetna, Federal and State BCBS, McLaren Health Plan, the V.A., and others. (Unfortunately he is not a Medicaid provider, as of yet.) Private pay is always an option, and rates are income scaled, between $100-66 per session. Dan’s hours are M-Th 8:35a to 5:35p.
Please call Dan with any questions or to make an appointment. He relies on an answering machine when he’s not available to answer himself, as this keeps his prices as affordable as possible. He’s very conscientious of answering all calls as quickly as he can.
