Dan Griffin has worked in the mental health and addictions fields for almost three decades. He is recognized internationally as an expert on men’s issues with a particular focus on relationships and trauma. In the fall of 2015, Griffin was honored to be named a senior fellow at The Meadows where he served for 2 years. He is the owner, founder, and lead consultant of Griffin Recovery Enterprises, Inc. GRE launched a new division focused on father’s in 2014.
Griffin’s last book, A Man's Way through Relationships, is the first trauma-informed book written to help men create healthy relationships while navigating the challenges of internalizing the "Man Rules." Griffin is also the author, A Man’s Way through the Twelve Steps, the first trauma-informed book to take a holistic look at men’s recovery. Dan is the co-author of Amazing Dads!, the first trauma-informed curriculum for dads.
He also co-authored Helping Men Recover, the first comprehensive gender-responsive and trauma-informed addiction curriculum for men, and Healing Men’s Pain, a companion curriculum focused on men and trauma. Griffin’s graduate work was centered on the social construction of masculinity in the culture of Alcoholics Anonymous. In 2012, Griffin was one of a number of national experts invited by SAMHSA to help build a consensus definition of the terms “trauma” and “trauma-informed.”
Griffin lives in California with his wife, Nancy, and his daughter, Grace, and has been in long-term recovery since he graduated college in May of 1994.