Hi, I'm Dan. I turn clinical research into writing people actually read.

Psychology and addiction recovery content, made digestible for the masses.

Dan

How I craft an article

Here's a sneak peak at my article creation process. Click through the steps.

Step 1
The client gives me a title and target keywords. That's the brief. Everything else is mine to work out.
Step 2
I research psychological and medical databases like NCBI before writing a word, so every claim has somewhere to stand.
Step 3
I build the outline around the keywords, mapping each one to the place it belongs in the piece.
Step 4
A keyword like mental health services US becomes a heading that reads like a question someone would actually ask. mental health services US H2: "Where Can I Find Mental Health Services in the US?"
Step 5
First draft, then refinement until it reads clean and earns the reader's trust.
Step 6
Delivered fully referenced in APA 7 or MLA, ready to publish.
Step 1 of 6

Where the method ends up

A sample across the two areas I write in most. Click any piece view a snippet.

Psychology

PTSD, depression, anxiety, neurodivergent conditions, discussion pieces.

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Trauma
Fight, Flight, Freeze & Fawn Trauma Responses
How these responses are linked with trauma
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Discussion
Emotional Dependence on AI: When Support Tools Start Replacing People
Discussion piece and where to get real psychological support
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Neurodiversity
How Neurodiversity Affects School Performance in Teens: Challenges and Support
Information for those with neurodivergent children
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Depression
Depression That Won’t Lift: New Paths When Standard Treatment Fails
Next-step advice for treatment-resistant depression and therapeutic plateaus

Addiction Recovery

Addiction, detox and rehab pages, plus blog topics across the recovery space.

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MDMA
High-Functioning MDMA Addiction
How a high-functioning MDMA addiction forms, with advice on next steps
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Dual Diagnosis
Dual Diagnosis
What this means in the addiction field and where to get help
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Rehab
Heroin Rehab
The ins and outs of heroin rehab: what happens before, during and after
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Detox
Cocaine Detox
What happens during cocaine detox, the timelines, how it’s managed, and where to get help

Names I've written for

Published under client bylines across these names. Full samples available on request.

UKAT Mission Prep Mission Connection AMFM

A little more about the writer

Dan

I'm a freelance writer with a psychology BA and six years spent writing about mental health and addiction recovery.

That background means I understand the subject before I write a word about it. I take clinical research and turn it into something a worried parent or a person in recovery can read without feeling lost.

For you, that's the part that matters. Writing people finish is writing people trust, and a reader who trusts you is a reader who might pick up the phone. Good content does more than inform. It brings you new readers, and new readers become new clients.

Let's talk about your content.

Available for freelance and contract work across health, wellness, and medical communications.