Daniel M. Williams, M.D., P.A., a veteran-owned Professional Association, doing business as Mindshift Care, An Independent Voice for Behavioral Health.
Our mission statement at Mindshift Care is to be a global community of people working in harmony and dedicated to providing scalable, effective mental health support for each of the 5 Stages of the Recovery Cycle.
Message from the Founder
“At the age of 40, I re-joined the military during psychiatry training with the goal of being an expert in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. I had the privilege of serving as the first 36th Infantry Division Psychiatrist to fill that position since World War 2. In my career, I have helped thousands of the toughest cases, including many of the things you’ve seen on the news and in movies. I care passionately about providing ethical, effective psychiatric care just like all of my other classmates did. However, my advice to patients sounds completely different now from when I graduated as a psychiatrist in 2015 and became board-certified. Here’s why.
While I accumulated a lot of success with civilian clients, authored books, co-founded Project Healing Heroes, the secondary stress of all the war stories caused an invisible problem for which my training had not prepared me. I began to have psychosomatic, physical reactions related to childhood trauma of my own. My mirror neurons were feeling the feelings of patient’s with similar backgrounds – and no one was talking about it openly. A small service-connected degenerative joint condition in my neck from my 20’s came back with a vengeance in my 50’s. My own chronic pain and insomnia peaked during the height of COVID lockdowns in the year leading up to my deployment to Kuwait in 2020. This forced me to try dozens of Complimentary and Alternative Medicine modalities because primary care was useless.
After seven years of struggle and experimentation, I emerged with a different mindset about how emotional programming, electromagnetic body memories and the healing placebo all work together. My personal journey taught me to heal myself. I had a Mindshift and I’ll never see the world the same way again. I want to share that experience with you because I’ve been able to let go of past emotions held in the body and it has made everything 90% easier to deal with. The bottom line up front is that global mental health problems are being remarkably transformed on a daily basis by reducing exposure to toxins, ionic foot baths, energy healing modalities that involve quantum release work, sleeping on grounding sheets, and hormone replacement therapy.
I rounded out my personal experiences with struggle by overcoming deficits from medical school with several additional certification classes to make my message as holistic as possible. I studied horticulture, nutrition, toxicology, detoxification, Reiki, Emotion Code, mixed martial arts conditioning, and began conducting original research for the first time in a long time. I earned a Master of Cannabis Certification from Cannabis Training University online and a Master Gardener certificate from the University of Missouri Extension Campus in Springfield – the same place that inspired the Teaching Garden featured on the Gluten-Free Psychiatry Podcast.
There were many Mindshifts along the way, but the absolute LARGEST change imaginable came when I enrolled and participated in the Basic Training class from the One Light Healing Touch Program. Penny Price and Ron Lavin have been teaching their course for 40 years on dozens of ancient healing practices, several of which are featured in their documentary The Healing Field: Exploring Energy and Consciousness. Where I was initially exhausted and grieving a loss of ability to work as much or as intensely, my optimism and inquiring academic mind came alive again. The past emotionally charged energy had been cleared from my body with enough body work, such that I literally had a brand new slate – new energy to start this Healing Revolution you’re a part of right now.
Eventually, I began to see the similarities between the principles of healing a human being and growing your own organic food and medicine. I’ve now become convinced that the anti-thesis to all fairy tales is true – you already have everything you need. The principles for how to accomplish anything excellent in this creative world are summarized in Patient Persistent Loving Intention. I build this perspective into my courses and telepsychiatry practice. Other important constructs that are integrated into the How to Mindshift videos are Capacity, Opportunity, Motivation and Physical, Mental, Spiritual, Emotional domains. If you would like to become a published research author like me, I can mentor you to do what I have done, which is effectively Mindshift two different industries (PreMed and psychiatric Intensive Outpatient Programs).
Prior to taking the One Light Healing Touch Basic Training class in 2025, the most profound life transformations I had seen in mental health occur in Intensive Outpatient Programs that last for 6-10 weeks. Outpatient treatment is typically slow to make a whole life transformation and inpatient hospitalization focuses on stabilization and safety. It’s in the Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP) that many weeks are spent with therapists teaching classes and the results are often life-changing in many respects. But in the One Light Healing Touch class, I witnessed overnight transitions in emotional wiring, personality makeup, and improved self-acceptance. As a psychiatrist, I could never help a person change/grow/heal that fast. People are transforming much faster now and can avoid having to pay up to $24,000 for two months of an in-person Intensive Outpatient Program – or much more for specialty energy healing places. At Mindshift Care, transformation often begins to take place within 1-2 meetings, with a totally free, virtual IOP to supplement your Personalized Mindshift Plan.
After reading all of that, I’m hoping that you’d never guess that I dropped out of high school two months before graduation and disappeared into homelessness for over a year on the streets in Houston, Texas. Believe me, I resisted en force most of the things I embrace today because no one ever explained them to me the way I do now. It’s time to teach these principles to 3rd Graders. My CV is chalk full of research and poster presentations about Mastermind Groups because I’ve always found my answers while I was helping someone else in need. God works like that. Setting up a group has always been a nifty ninja move.
I’m grateful to all of the people who showed me mercy, then a helping hand, and now the healing journey. The first to ever do so was the manager at the YMCA in Pasadena, Texas when I was in their after-school day care in Elementary School. I kept getting into fights every week and hurting kids. I broke my own hand in a fight that I won there. One day it happened again, but this time they didn’t punish me because it wasn’t working. Instead, he showed me mercy and arranged for the YMCA to pay for my trip to summer camp at Camp Cullen to experience a Christian camp. We could not afford it. He had no idea the types of crimes I had witnessed by the age of eight. To say that the YMCA approach worked is an understatement as my CV reflects.”
Our History
2022 – Springfield, MO tests city water for PFAS(1). The city of Springfield, MO is suing 3M Corporation for allegedly dumping Polyfluoalkyl Substances (PFAS) into the James River and mishandling PFAS at their Springfield location.
2023 – Dr. Daniel Williams is a psychiatrist that was working in Springfield right after the lawsuit was filed. He had already noticed that practically all of the physically healthy psychiatric patients had elevated cholesterol labs, low Vitamin D, and more than expected subclinical hypothyroidism. He put two-and-two together and suspected these abnormal labs reflected bioaccumulation of PFAS in to the residents of the Springfield and Ozark region, as far south as Arkansas. (See Dr. Williams’ Author Page for previous publications.)
2024 – Dr. Williams conducted preliminary research to estimate the prevalence of these abnormal labs and published the report here: Early Potential Biomarkers for Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Bioaccumulation. Next, he demonstrated that PFAS can be excreted from humans via electrolysis (ionic foot bath).
2025 – On February 17, 2024, Dr. Williams issued a call to action for Mastermind Groups was issued for feedback on the holistic vision for a scalable, private community with life-changing holistic, Complimentary & Alternative Medicine resources. The research papers that underly mainstream psychiatry are combined in a free, Endnote bibliography file that keeps growing: Practitioner Certification for the One Light Healing Touch program, nutrition certification class from Da Vinci Institute of Holistic Medicine, Master Gardener’s Certification and Master’s of Cannabis and other certifications.
Reference:
(1) https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2024/06/05/3m-sued-by-city-utilities-for-knowingly-contaminating-water/73979279007/ (accessed 7/12/2024).