Daniel J. Siegel, MD

Daniel J. Siegel is the cofounder of Mind Your Brain, the founder and director of education of the Mindsight Institute, founding codirector of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and an international conference speaker. He is a New York Times bestselling author whose books include Mind, The Mindful Therapist, The Mindful Brain, Aware, and The Developing Mind, and he is the founding editor of the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology, with more than 1.4 million books sold.

A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Siegel completed his postgraduate training at UCLA, specializing in pediatrics and in adult, adolescent, and child psychiatry. He was trained in attachment research and narrative analysis through a National Institute of Mental Health research training fellowship, focusing on how relationships shape our autobiographical ways of making sense of our lives and influence our development across the lifespan. He shares updates on Instagram, X, Facebook, and YouTube.