David R. Kopacz, MD works as a psychiatrist at Seattle VA in primary care mental health integration. In his clinical work, he has developed a Whole Health class, a meditation class, and a hero’s journey class, using mythology, narrative, culture, poetry, and art to help Veterans return home after military service. David is an education champion with the national VA Office of Patient-Centered Care & Cultural Transformation, where he teaches Whole Health to VA staff across the USA. He is board-certified in psychiatry and holistic & integrative medicine and is an assistant professor at the University of Washington. He has worked in many different practice settings, including holistic private practice, community mental health, and as clinical director of Buchanan Rehabilitation Centre in Auckland, New Zealand. David is the author of Re-humanizing Medicine: A Holistic Framework for Transforming Your Self, Your Practice, and the Culture of Medicine (2014), and Caring for Self & Others: Transforming Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, and Soul Loss (2024); and with co-author Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow) Walking the Medicine Wheel: Healing Trauma & PTSD (2016), Becoming Medicine: Pathways of Initiation into a Living Spirituality (2020), Becoming Who You Are: Beautiful Painted Arrow's Life & Lessons for Children Ages 10-100 (2021), and A Bowl Full of Ideas for Inventive Minds (2023). 

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David's blog: beingfullyhuman.com

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website: davidkopacz.com

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Twitter: @davidkopaczmd

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