Stephen Dansiger on Clubhouse

Bio

🎶Played CBGB and Max’s Kansas City in the late 70s; drank, played in a toy rock band and then got sober in the 80s; became an international social justice/diversity educator and rocker again in the 90s; and now a sought after EMDR therapist, Consultant, EMDR Trainer, author and meditation teacher.😎

Have attempted to cure Marc Maron on WTF, become a master EMDR therapist and provider of EMDR Training as Senior Faculty with the Institute for Creative Mindfulness, and a pioneer in the Buddhist recovery field.✅

🌞Developed the MET(T)A Protocol, a design for mental health agency treatment using Buddhist Mindfulness and EMDR Therapy, currently being utilized in trauma and addiction treatment centers across the country.

📖Author Clinical Dharma: A Path for Healers and Helpers; Mindfulness for Anger Management: Transformative Skills for Overcoming Anger and Managing Powerful Emotions

📚Coauthor with Jamie Marich of EMDR Therapy and Mindfulness for Trauma Focused Care; Trauma and the 12 Steps Meditation Reader; Trauma and the 12 Steps: A Trauma Responsive Workbook; Healing Addiction with EMDR Therapy: A Trauma Focused Guide (Springer Publishing, September 2021)


🖥Blogging and podcasting on topics related to mental health, recovery, and mindfulness.🎙

Private practice in Los Angeles

🛤Traveling internationally speaking and teaching on Buddhist mindfulness, EMDR therapy, the MET(T)A Protocol, trauma, corporate wellness, Buddhist approaches to treating mental health issues, and clinician/caregiver self-care.

🌤Practicing Buddhist mindfulness for over 30 years, including a one year residency at a Zen monastery

🧘🏽‍♀️Teaching dharma classes regularly in Los Angeles and other centers internationally.

🎧Head of Health & Wellness Innovation & Partnerships at DropLabs (a company led by Susan Paley, former CEO of Beats by Dre), the creators of full immersion sound technology delivered through bluetooth to vibrational footwear simultaneously with your headphones.👟

StartAgain Technologies develops, collaborates on and acquires applications to deliver through DropLabs and other hardware, to enhance the MET(T)A Protocol, add new dimensions and interventions to many other health and wellness platforms, and broaden access to mental health care and wellness.

At all other times, I am entertaining my 11 year old daughter, mostly with dad jokes according to her.