Daniel Lichtman MA (Couns Psych)
Developing elegant solutions to complex personal issues for high performing professionals and expats in Hong Kong.
Daniel offers single session and multi-session packages of in-person and online counselling. Online coaching allows you to gain support privately and discretely, wherever you are in the world.
Registered Psychotherapist (PACFA Australia) and Certified Transformational Coach (Circling Institute, USA) with over 18,000 hours experience.
Nothing You Do Is Right
You feel constantly at fault in the relationship
Regularly Criticized
Especially when you don’t comply with expectations
Constant Drama
The relationship creates on-going anxiety and unpredictability
You Walk on Eggshells
You never know what will set the other person off
You're the Scapegoat
For things that go wrong in the other person’s life
Negative Self Talk
Because of the constant criticism, you’ve internalized negative self-talk
If you have finally had enough of living this way and are ready to take action, let’s talk!
Recovering from betrayal and affairs.
Skilfully navigating the tough conversations with difficult people in your life.
Repairing from chronic and repeated personal conflicts.
Recovering & counselling from a breakup or divorce.
Developing emotional intelligence.
Developing a vision, model and practices for a successful intimate relationship.
Transforming unhealthy emotional habits from your past.
Becoming an effective communicator.
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Client Testimonials from Counselling in Hong Kong and Worldwide Online
Daniel’s direct, no BS style, immediately cut through to the core of what was creating problems in my relationship and helped me figure out what to do about it.
– SHANTI RUBENS, LAWYER – AUSTRALIA
‘I came to Daniel feeling like a mess, not knowing how to cope with what life has presented. After working with him I feel so much in peace and harmony. I have learned to live in the present and stop modeling future problems. I have gained such valuable insights into my feelings and attitudes and got equipped to experience life more positively.’
My approach is driven by scientific research that shows that secure-functioning, emotionally healthy relationships enhance our personal well-being. We’ll trace and unpack the root causes of your outdated, emotional habits and knee-jerk reactions to stress so they can be unraveled, unlearned and replaced with effective & skillful replacements based on wisdom, compassion and understanding.
We are all programmed to experience relationships in a particular way based on our early primary relationships: how we were related to and what was modelled to us as children. These emotional habits are hardwired into our brains and nervous systems without us realising. They dramatically impact how we function in our adult relationships. They include a whole set of beliefs about ourselves and the world, though we are generally unaware of their influence and the extent that these beliefs are running our lives
I’ll equip you to increase your emotional intelligence and develop insight and compassion about who you are and how you have been living. Under the surface, emotions drive many of our decisions. Most of us have little comprehension of the emotional dynamics driving the decisions we make and reactions we have to stress. I help people to develop a deep knowledge and comprehension of the emotional habits that lie behind our habitual decision making.
As soon as we experience stress, we are not run by our conscious mind any more, we are run by a more basic programme – older automatic emotional habits that were intelligent responses in early life. You will develop greater freedom to respond rather than react. You will have greater freedom to choose how to respond to stressful moments and more skillfully navigate difficult relationships.
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I’m a relationship specialist.
I challenge and guide my clients to build and sustain successful and fulfilling personal and professional relationships (starting with the one with themselves).
With fierceness, humour and humility, I champion client’s causes.
My focus is working with high-functioning professionals who encounter interpersonal relationship challenges in all domains.
My clients include hedge fund managers, CEOs and CFOs of major international firms, homeless people, bankers, pilots, corporate lawyers, teachers, medical professionals, military personnel and rabbis.
WITH MY WIFE SHELLY AND DAUGHTER MADDIE
I’ve been a psychological health professional since 2002. I spend several hundred hours each year doing extensive training in the latest therapeutic and coaching modalities, in order to keep up with the cutting edge healing methods.
My expertise weaves the combination of years of mindfulness training and buddhist psychology training with advanced studies of cutting edge developmental neuroscience and attachment theory including Psychobiological approach to Couples Therapy and Emotion focused therapy
http://www.emotionfocusedclinic.org/whatis.htm
However, my own relationships are the real wellspring of my knowledge and wisdom. My experience as a committed husband, father, son and friend most heavily inform how I help others.
Testimonials from life coaching and therapy in Hong Kong, plus around the world online
Daniel Lichtman Reviews
Working with Daniel has been life changing. He exudes “living in the moment”. Just sitting next to him, I sense a calm within myself that I’ve not known otherwise. The weeks that I spent in group work with Daniel have shown me more of myself than I ever could have imagined, and I am better for it.
Working with Daniel continues to be an incredibly valuable and important part of my life. He is an incredibly skillful listener, full of empathy and authenticity. Through his sharp insights and caring support, he has helped me make sense of my life experiences and behaviors while providing me with the hope and mental tools required to better myself. I strongly believe that anybody seeking a life coach, therapist or guide would be very well served by seeing Daniel (either individually or as part of a men’s group)
Daniel Lichtman is a skilled therapist and spiritual warrior. He is ballsy and gentle; heartfelt and edgy; strong and playful. He has been a keen witness to my process, artfully creating space where I feel safe and can take risks. I feel both supported and challenged in his presence. Daniel is simply a living invitation to journey in the heart.
Registered Psychotherapist
PACFA Australia
Masters of Transpersonal Counselling Psychology
Naropa University (Boulder, CO)
Certified PACT(Level 2) Couple Therapist
PACT Institute (Los Angeles CA
Certified Gestalt Therapist (CGT)
Boulder Psychotherapy Institute, (Boulder, CO)
Advanced Certificate in Emotional Focused Couple Therapy
OCFI Ottawa Family and Couples Institute (Ottawa, Canada)
Certificate in Transformational Coaching
Advanced Transformational Coaching and Leadership Training Program (San Fransisco, CA)
Certified Group Psychotherapist
Boulder Psychotherapy Institute, (Boulder, CO)
Certified EMDR Practitioner
EMDR institute (Jerusalem, Israel)
Certified Transformational Coach
Circling Institute, USA
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Location:
110 Wellington St
Central
Hong Kong
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