Seattle, WA · Former Private Practice Therapist
You're not broken.
You're exhausted.
I spent years as a therapist charging $300 a session watching people pour their savings into healing. I knew there had to be a better way — so I built one. This is for people who are functioning on the outside but running on empty on the inside.
You deserve to finally find yourself.
My Story
I left private practice
for you.
For years I worked as a licensed therapist — specializing in Complex PTSD, high-achieving anxiety, and depression. I watched brilliant, capable people spend thousands of dollars trying to feel okay. And many of them did get better. But the pace of healing was too slow, the cost too high, and access too limited.
I developed a method I kept seeing work quickly: learning to keep one foot grounded in the present and one in the past. Not to dwell — but to integrate. To stop running from your own story long enough to finally meet yourself in it.
I used to charge $300 per session. Now I offer the workbook for $27 — with an option to go deeper for those who are ready. Because healing shouldn't require a second mortgage. And you shouldn't have to wait years to feel like yourself.
I want people to feel like they could cry — because they finally found what they were looking for all their lives. Themselves.
Is this you?
You've done everything right.
And you're still so tired.
If you read that and felt something — you're in the right place.
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A small invitation
to come back to yourself.
A 7-day structured nervous system reset designed to rebuild steadiness through intentional daily pacing. Small practices. Real change.
- Daily guided practices with clear timing
- Body signal tracking and stress monitoring
- Simple structure to reduce overwhelm
- Bonus: 7 Daily Return Worksheets included
Writing & Theory
The nervous system
is infrastructure.
I've been developing a framework that reframes how we understand regulation — not as emotional management, but as an energy-timing system that decides whether your body has enough buffer to continue.
The nervous system allocates energy, times repair, and calculates whether there is enough buffer to continue. If there isn't — it collapses into urgency.
When time collapses, we call it anxiety. When time stretches, we call it safety. Regulation is not emotional positivity — it is regained temporal flexibility.
Threat is registered physiologically before the mind constructs a story. HRV drops after visibility. Temperature rises before conscious stress. The body knows before you do.
Across generations, across relationships — love is not a feeling. It is the act of protecting someone else's capacity to pace themselves through time.
"You are not a productivity system.
You are infrastructure.
And infrastructure deserves maintenance, not criticism."
Current Experiment
Testing the theory with an Oura Ring
Not to optimize. Not to biohack. But to observe — whether biometrics shift when life loses time. HRV after high-visibility posting. Body temperature before conscious stress. Sleep during financial uncertainty. Private creative work improving readiness.
The body should register infrastructure strain before the mind constructs the narrative. And so far — it does.
Trained in EMDR on Bainbridge Island. Rooted in polyvagal theory, attachment science, epigenetics, and the physics of stored charge.
Regulation Is Infrastructure
The 12-Week Program —
For people serious about change.
The workbook gives you the foundation. This is where you rebuild — not from the top down, but from the inside out. Twelve weeks of structured work that builds your full regulation infrastructure: your anchor inventory, threat profile map, stress cycle completion protocol, and a complete map of how your nervous system actually operates. Not symptom management. System understanding.
"This is BEAUTIFUL!"
— Program participant
"I've done years of therapy and read every book. Nothing explained what was actually happening in my body the way this did. By week four I felt steadier than I had in a decade."
— M.T., Marketing Director
"I kept waiting for it to feel hard. It never did — it just felt true. Daryl has a way of making the most complex neuroscience land like something you already knew but couldn't name."
— K.R., Nurse Practitioner
32 structured video lessons across 12 weeks, each one building on the last. Work at your own pace with lifetime access to all materials and every future update.
- 32 video lessons — 12 weeks of structured curriculum
- Personal regulation workbook built alongside the lessons
- Anchor inventory + threat profile map
- Stress cycle completion protocol
- Full regulation infrastructure map by week 12
- Weekly live group psychoeducation check-in (60 min)
- Co-regulated community doing this work alongside you
- Lifetime access + all future updates included
Everything in the self-directed container — plus 12 private 60-minute sessions with Daryl, one per week, timed precisely to the curriculum. This is not supplementary coaching. This is co-regulation as the primary intervention: a regulated nervous system in the room with yours, reading your system in real time and adjusting the work to what it actually needs.
- Everything in the Self-Directed Container
- 12 private 60-min sessions with Daryl — one per week
- Sessions timed precisely to the curriculum
- Clinical co-regulation as the primary intervention
- Regulation map built with clinical precision, not self-report alone
- Real-time system reads and curriculum adjustments
- Direct access between sessions for integration support
Not sure which option is right for you? The consult call is the place to figure that out — no pressure, no pitch. Just a conversation.
Common Questions
What People Say
Real words from
real healing.
From my years as a therapist at Waves Counseling — the same approach, now accessible to everyone.
"I have tried therapy before and thought it wasn't for me — until I was referred to Daryl and realized I never met the right therapist. I've been seeing her for over a year and I can't imagine my life without her. She is able to have friendly, personable interactions while remaining completely professional. She is the best."
"I wish there was a way to give Daryl more than 5 stars. She does not judge a book by its cover, nor its contents. She brings a light and positivity to everything she does. I can honestly say I would not be where I am today — and probably not on this earth — without her."
"I have absolutely loved having Daryl as my therapist. She's extremely personable and makes therapy not feel hard. She creates such a welcoming environment — I could always look forward to my sessions. I couldn't recommend somebody more."
"Daryl is a down to earth, genuine and unconditional therapist that will meet you where you're at. Highly recommend."