Welcome to Dr. Dan Griffin

Trusted experience in the art of evolving lives and the science of intelligent behaviors.

Seeking help is an important decision, and choosing the right person is crucial. My many years of experience successfully helping people and training therapists have honed my therapy skills, but I believe that warmth, respect, and caring are just as vital to foster a therapeutic partnership that works. If you’d like to see whether I can provide a connection that works, please call me at 301.495.4848.

Children grow and evolve in many different ways throughout their lives, and some ages may seem especially difficult for a parent to handle. Some problems are best worked out in individual therapy, while other problems improve more rapidly when other family members join in the therapy sessions. Decisions as to the most effective course of therapy are best made after a careful assessment and collaboratively setting goals for treatment. Specific behavior problems as seen in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or Attachment Disorder require specific individual and family interventions for a successful outcome.

There is nothing as important to our experience of well-being as the quality of our relationships, particularly our primary, intimate connections. I am committed to couples counseling that is based on a clear, explicit understanding of marital distress and adult love. I passionately believe that:

Partners can learn ways to alter the negative emotional responses they have to problems, that is, habitual responses that make each partner unhappy.
Partners can learn new ways to resolve problems and foster more desirable emotions in each other.
There are recent developments in the scientific literature that led to profound changes in couples therapy practice, and I am committed to remaining on the cutting edge of this field of practice, both as a therapist and in training others for practice.

Individual adult therapy can be brief and directed toward achieving specific goals, or it can be more exploratory conducted over a longer course of time. Research has firmly established that the success of individual therapy is strongly determined by the quality of the connection between therapist and client and a mutual commitment to the goals of treatment.

Does this therapist understand me?
Does his approach to therapy resonate with my needs?
Do I believe this therapist will help me?
And most important—am I making progress?

Good therapy usually yields positive responses fairly early and noticeable therapeutic progress should follow within a short period of time.

I have been actively engaged in training psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers for most of my career. I have taught professionals at New York University Hospital, George Washington University, Washington School of Psychiatry, and the Minuchin Center for the Family. Currently I teach family and child interventions to psychiatrists at Children’s National Medical Center. As a teacher in diverse mental health settings, I strive to help others learn and provide effective therapies for their patients, and guide their life-long growth as therapists. Teaching others is profound way to strengthen my own practice, and to continue to evolve creatively.

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