TESTIMONIALS

Consulting

“I really cannot find the words to adequately convey the impact that our work with Dan Griffin has had upon our agency. We had prided ourselves on being a ‘treatment destination’ for women but had done very little (as it turned out) – over the recent past of our 40+ year history, to advance the quality and efficacy of services we offered to MEN. With Dan’s wise counsel and courageous leadership, our organization was literally transformed: From gender-specific to gender-RESPONSIVE; from trauma-informed to trauma-INTEGRATED. Dan’s stupendous interpersonal rapport + savvy successfully engaged everyone; clinicians, support staff, community partners – even our Board of Directors, Senior Leadership and government funders were reinvigorated by the immersive experience! Dan’s patient coaching and the incredible depth of his subject-matter-expertise, were key ingredients in our success that simply would not have been available anywhere else. Dan Griffin did for our men’s services what Stephanie Covington did for our women’s. As a female CEO, I benefitted so much on a personal level from Dan; he inspired and then guided me through a process of development, which has resulted in more efficacious and rewarding relationships with the men I lead. We are a better, stronger, more confident and effective agency because of Dan, and will forever be grateful that he led us to the proverbial ‘water’ of providing mental health & addiction treatment services for MEN.”

 –Deborah Gatenby, CEO, Hope Place Centres

“Embarking on a journey with Griffin Recovery Enterprises is an experience that is likely to transform the
way in which you approach your clinical work. Dan Griffin helps us to see “The Water” in which we all
swim; to become aware of the unwritten rules of society, culture and media so that as clinicians, we
may help our participants to choose who it is that they want to become as a man in recovery and in
relationships.”

-Stacie Lucius, MS, LCMHC, MLADC, Chief of Clinical Services at WestBridge

“Over the last few years, our child welfare agency has collaborated with Dan Griffin and his team to help enhance our practice with fathers.  His training sessions are enlightening, generate self-reflection, and set up participants on the path for meaningful change in the way they perceive fathers and how they decide to show up in their clinical interventions.”

–Champana Bernard, MSW, Father Engagement Supervisor, Fairfax County Department of Family Services Children Youth and Families Division

Trainings & Retreats

Dan facilitated a three day training on Helping Men Recover to approximately 35 people at my organization.  I have worked with individuals with substance use/ co-occurring disorders in and out of the criminal justice system for 27 years and this was one of the most informative, meaningful, impactful trainings I have ever attended focused on men and dealing with trauma. My organization plans to implement the training throughout the organization in outpatient and residential settings. Dan is a dynamic presenter who challenged his attendees to experience the training on a personal level which provided a deeper understanding of the material.  I highly recommend that anyone working with men in recovery attend this training!

–Jennifer Fillmore, Director of Substance Use Residential and Specialized Services, Centerstone

Praise for Dan’s Books

“Dan Griffin is the authority on addressing men’s issues in recovery….Dan’s wisdom, writing style, and enlightened insight into twelve-step recovery blend harmoniously in this book, a major contribution to the field”
-Jamie Marich, PhD, LPCC-S, LICDC-CS, Clinician and Creator of Dancing Mindfulness
Author of Trauma and the Twelve Steps and Trauma Made Simple

“Dan Griffin has written a guide – from the heart – about the most challenging and ultimately rewarding task for men in our age: navigating the complex maze of intimate relationships.”
–David Wexler, PhD, Author of When Good Men Behave Badly

“A beautiful book about men and for men….I am a big fan of Dan Griffin and his contributions to treatment and recovery. This book is important to men in general, and specifically to men in recovery. Every man needs to read this!”
–Claudia Black, PhD, Addiction and Trauma Specialist
Author of It Will Never Happy to Me and Intimate Treason

“Dan Griffin is a new sort of man and he has written a new sort of book about men: honest and courageous, yet vulnerable and accessible….Dan’s style is alternately authoritative and self-effacing, reflecting what he knows to be the case about male vulnerability: that it is only through this vulnerability, not around it, that men become ‘all that they may be.'”
–Roger Fallot, PhD, Director of Research and Evaluation, Community Connections