David Agee

LMSW

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Locations

Traverse City Clinic
700 E. Hammond Rd, Suite 200
Traverse City, MI 49686

Patient Ages

  • Adult
  • Older Adult

David has been a therapist since 2000. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Detroit, an M.Div at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. and his MSW from Grand Valley State University. He is happily married to Pamela since 1992 and currently lives in Leelanau County. David has and continues to live a rich and varied life. He studied abroad in Ireland and Palestine, and has traveled in Europe, the Middle East and Central America, as well as North America. He has been a teacher, a bookseller and a pastoral minister before becoming a social worker. He grew up in both the Detroit area and on a family farm in Gaylord. While he has lived most of his life in Michigan, he has also enjoyed living in the Twin Cities and in South Bend, IN.

As a therapist, David is trained in CBT, Narrative therapy, Motivational Interviewing, EMDR, and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy. He is deeply interested in mindfulness practice and mindfulness based therapy. At heart, however, he is an existential therapist, finding at the heart of the human condition our struggle with life and death, meaning and purpose, freedom and responsibility, loneliness and connection, suffering and happiness, grief and loss, and the problem of evil.

As an elder, David is deeply interested in gerotranscendence, both as an area of study and direct experience. He is committed to assisting others in coming to terms with grief and loss, aging as a process of diminishment, chronic illness, preparing for and adjusting to retirement, and facing one’s own mortality. He has personally experienced loss: his parents, a brother, cousins, aunts and uncles and several close friends.

We all make mistakes and we all have regrets. As someone wisely once said, “None of us get out of this alive.” What we can do is honor our feelings and our experiences. As we face them, allow ourselves to feel them, we can create a space to heal and grow through them.

David believes that spirituality, whatever tradition one lives, is a practice to embody and a path to walk. His own spiritual path has been influenced by the Judeo-Christian tradition, Buddhism, Taoism and Indigenous Spirituality.

David loves reading, study, walking, nature observation, poetry, music, playing guitar, kayaking and canoeing, gardening, song writing, and cooking. He is as interested in friendship as he is in nature. He loves the arts and loves beauty wherever he can find it. He believes that loving kindness, compassion, social justice, and concern for all sentient beings and the planet are more important now than ever. He believes the cause and conditions of happiness are within us and all around us, and that there are enough things in life to stay active and to make sure a curious mind is never bored or satisfied. David has a particular fondness for dogs, birds, frogs, turtles, trees and fish.

David’s favorite authors and poets include: J.R.R, Tolkien, Aldo Leopold, Patrick O’Brien, Wendell Berry, Henry David Thoreau, Loren Eisley, Mary Oliver, Thich Nhat Hanh, Jane Hirschfield, Jim Harrison, Pema Chodron, Robert Frost and Jack Kornfield.

David Agee participates in the Diversity Collective.

Specialties

Treatment

  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Anger Management
  • Depression
  • Grief and Loss
  • PTSD/Trauma/Abuse

Articles By David Agee

Generosity Through Giving … and Letting Go

Generosity Through Giving … and Letting Go

Giving and Letting Go walk hand in hand. Both help us open ourselves to compassion for the suffering and need in the world; both help foster generosity. This is more than just cultivating a spirit of altruism and philanthropy, or embracing a...

A Guide to Practicing Sitting Meditation

A Guide to Practicing Sitting Meditation

I like to think of practicing mindfulness meditation as being like walking a labyrinth. This labyrinth, however, begins at the center and spirals outward, then returns to where it began: the center. Come to a comfortable seated position. If you...

Mindfulness: The Ultimate Grounding

Mindfulness: The Ultimate Grounding

Living on autopilot is a type of disassociation, we miss out on the life we could be experiencing without even realizing it. Mindfulness helps restore the balance and feel fully alive.

Tuning In to Your Healthy Inner Voice

Tuning In to Your Healthy Inner Voice

A healthy inner voice extends loving kindness towards ourselves. It is wise, coaching, guiding, and says the things we need to hear that build and lift us up.

Making Change Sweeter: How to Find the Sweet Spot

Making Change Sweeter: How to Find the Sweet Spot

In their Transtheoretical Model, James Prochaska and Carlo DiClimente identify five stages in the process of change. Basically, you have pre-change, a beginning, middle and an end or continuance. When it comes to change, different people have more...

The Importance of Nurturing a Mindful Attitude

The Importance of Nurturing a Mindful Attitude

Recently, I have been reflecting a lot about the mindful attitude. It seems to me that attitudes are composed of three elements: perspective, emotion/mood, and intention. Perspective Perspectives have a kind of solidity that thoughts and emotions...

Mindfulness: The Art of Living

Mindfulness: The Art of Living

Mindfulness takes us far beyond psychological dimension into the spiritual. The practice of Mindfulness opens the heart to love, beauty and wonder.

Facing a Few Things: Four Steps For Dealing With Dread

Facing a Few Things: Four Steps For Dealing With Dread

David Agee, LMSW, elaborates on four steps we can use to deal with anxiety, worry, panic or agoraphobia: facing, accepting, floating, and letting time pass.

Finding Happiness Through Gratitude

Finding Happiness Through Gratitude

Gratitude is a critical ingredient to contentment, joy and happiness. Gratitude is an attitude, a practice and an emotion. There are many aspects to gratitude.

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