Daniel Lozoya

Daniel Lozoya is a trauma-informed therapist who provides a warm, affirming, and nonjudgmental space where clients can feel safe being themselves while working through life’s challenges. He supports individuals navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, substance use, relationship concerns, and the everyday stressors that can feel overwhelming or exhausting. Daniel identifies as a cisgender gay male and is especially passionate about supporting individuals within the BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities. He understands the impact of minority stress, identity-related trauma, and systemic barriers, and works to create a therapeutic space where clients do not have to explain or defend who they are. Therapy with Daniel is collaborative, paced to the client, and grounded in safety, trust, and respect.

Daniel brings over a decade of experience across community mental health, collaborative care, crisis support, and outpatient psychotherapy. He has worked with children, adolescents, and adults with complex trauma, mood disorders (including bipolar disorder), substance use, and severe mental illness in settings ranging from Medicaid-funded community programs and specialty courts to integrated primary care and private practice. This broad clinical background allows him to support both long-standing trauma and the day-to-day anxiety, mood challenges, and stressors that affect clients’ daily lives. His clinical approach is trauma-focused and attachment-informed.

Daniel is Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) trained, which he uses to help clients process experiences that continue to impact present-day functioning. Depending on each client’s needs and goals, he also integrates CBT, DBT skills, and Motivational Interviewing to support emotional regulation, behavior change, and practical coping. For clients who are not ready or interested in intensive trauma processing, he offers EMDR-based interventions such as the EMD/ASSYST protocol to reduce acute stress, emotional overwhelm, and distress in a gentle, contained way. Daniel is fluent in Spanish (Hablo español, estoy aquí para ayudarte) and provides culturally responsive care that honors each client’s lived experience. He believes healing happens when clients feel respected, empowered, and accepted exactly as they are.

Outside of his clinical work, Daniel enjoys spending time with family, in nature, hiking, and caring for his two dogs—a fox terrier and a golden doodle—which reflects his belief in balance, grounding, and connection both in and out of the therapy room. Daniel is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW #31372) in Maryland and practices under the supervision of Octavia Sykes, LCSW-C (#22187).