Dan Quinn, Psy.D.

Psychoanalysis brings aliveness and practicality into the same room. I want our work to make room for the things that matter to you the most.

I was apprenticing for this work all along.

Psychology

My study of psychology began when I was a teenager and continued through college.

Theater

Then I got pulled into working in the theater, a little like running off to join the circus. I wanted to feel more alive, and it worked!

Business

From there, I moved into the velocity and tough practicality of business. I led a tech company and did management consulting. But something was missing.

When I realized that psychoanalysis brings aliveness and practicality into the same room, I made some tough calls and got myself back in school over twenty years ago. I’ve been doing this work ever since.

I know what it feels like to sit in the client’s chair.

I’ve got many years of my own psychoanalysis and therapy behind me, and that has been my best education. I know how compelling, and uncomfortable, it can feel to sit in the client’s chair, and how much is riding on our work together.

I want our sessions to feel a little like we’re sitting around a kitchen table.

Time with someone who cares about you, talking about the things that matter to you the most.

My training and experience.

I got my doctorate at The Wright Institute in Berkeley, and joined the faculty to teach and supervise the clinical work and research of doctoral candidates.

Jungian training

Many years of post-doctoral psychoanalytic training at The San Francisco Jung Institute and The Santa Fe Jung Institute.

Trauma-focused approaches

Advanced training in depth, relational, somatic, EMDR, IFS and other approaches to treating trauma.

Therapy & training

I ran The Bridge Therapy Center, a therapy and therapist training institute.

Published work

I’ve published in The Jung Journal and The Journal of Analytical Psychology.

The College of Hard Knocks.

My post-graduate studies continue at The College of Hard Knocks. Along the way I’ve worked as a journalist, high school teacher, highway flagman, short-order cook, nurse’s aide, house painter and cab driver.

I live on the edge of a forest in the bucolic theater town of Ashland, Oregon, with my wife, the writer Lesley Quinn.

A book in progress.

I’m working on a book that argues that Freud had Oedipus wrong, and that Oedipus had an unacknowledged core trauma of abandonment. So did Freud. So do many of us, in one form or another.

Let’s talk about what matters to you.

If this approach feels like it might be right for you, get in touch. We can talk about what is happening and feel out whether working together makes sense.