Damon Pourtahmaseb-Sasi

Damon Pourtahmaseb-Sasi is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Miami, Florida, operating his private practice through Polaris Guidance LLC. He holds an MS in Marriage and Family Therapy from Nova Southeastern University and has accumulated over 13 years of clinical experience across a wide variety of populations. He specializes in providing therapy, coaching, and mediation services to members of the Effective Altruism, rationalist, and longtermist communities, addressing issues such as motivation, impact-related guilt, non-monogamous relationships, and secular approaches to grief. In November 2019, he received a $40,000 grant from the Long-Term Future Fund to subsidize his therapeutic and coaching services for people working on existential risk and the long-term future of humanity. He is also known online as DaystarEld, under which he writes rationalist fiction (notably "Pokemon: The Origin of Species"), produces content on epistemics and emotional intelligence, and has directed and taught at more than 20 rationality camps and workshops including SPARC, ESPR, and Atlas over seven years.

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