In addition to being an Associate Teaching Professor in the Psychology Department of Northeastern University, Aaron B. Daniels is also a Senior Mindfulness Fellow in NU’s Center for Spirituality, Dialogue, and Service. He is the faculty leader of the Psychological Humanities at NU (PH@NU) workgroup and was a Research Fellow with Psychology & the Other from 2016-2024.
His PhD is from Pacifica Graduate Institute where he focused on Archetypal Psychology with a dissertation on the use of imagination by criminal profilers. His MA is from Duquesne University where he studied existential phenomenology. His BA with honors is from Baldwin-Wallace College.
Dr. Daniels’s books are: Imaginal Reality, Volumes 1 & 2 (both in 2011); Jungian Crime Scene Analysis: An Imaginal Investigation (2014); he contributed four chapters and edited Dante and the Other: A Phenomenology of Love (2021); and most recently, A Phenomenology of the Alien: Encounters with the Weird and Inscrutable Other (2025) which he edited and to which he contributed an extensive introduction. Routledge has accepted a next collected volume Spiritual Direction and the Other: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Accompaniment which he is editing with a team.
Dr. Daniels has been teaching in higher education for over two decades and has received numerous institutional awards for his teaching, advising, research, and collaborations. A psychotherapist in Seattle for 10 years, he worked in community and private practice, achieving LGBT-specialist status. He completed his spiritual direction certification in 2022. Film, science-fiction, and ‘Weird’ literature are frequent additions to his classes and research. With PH@NU, Aaron is keen to nurture collaborations which can allow his undergraduates to apply their impressive skills to editorial projects, conference posters and presentations, and supporting interdisciplinary scholars in their work.
In The News
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This psychologist says we need to be more comfortable with not knowing the answer in therapy
People often turn to therapy for answers about themselves, their lives or their relationships, but one psychologist says we need to get more comfortable with saying, “I don’t know” –– and that includes therapists too. Aaron B. Daniels, an associate teaching professor at Northeastern University with a decade plus of experience as a practicing therapist, […] -
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10 tips to make your New Year’s resolutions stick this year
Aaron Daniels, psychology professor, shares some tips to help you stick to your New Years resolutions. -
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Undergraduates shine at Psychology & the Other Conference in London
This past July 13-14, Aaron B. Daniels, associate teaching professor of psychology, took 22 undergraduate students to run and present papers at a Psychology & the Other Conference, held at Northeastern’s London campus. The students were part of Professor Daniels’s Psychological Humanities at Northeastern University (PH@NU) Workgroup and were generously supported by the College of […] -
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Election Day is upon us. Here are some tips for reining in your election-related anxiety — and how to keep your friends
Instead of staying up late on election night, Northeastern University psychology professor says everyone should go to sleep, manage their screen time and be prepared to accept the results. -
Student Spotlight
Undergraduate Student Experience Spotlight: Hope Zamora
I am Hope Zamora a major in behavioral neuroscience on the pre-med track. I am also in the Honors Program. I will be graduating in May of 2023. -
A Guide to Mindful Meditation
Aaron Daniels, psychology professor and mindfulness fellow at Northeastern, explains how meditation can lead to living life more intentionally, and how it’s benefited him on his own personal journey. -
The best way to get back to normal after devastating tornadoes? Just start somewhere.
As residents in America’s heartland grapple with grief and devastation following Friday’s tornado outbreak, shaken survivors may find small steps to recovery come from a return to simple routine, such as a visit to the dog park or a chance to bring the kids ice skating, says Daniel Aldrich, a Northeastern professor who studies post-disaster […]