15+

YEARS EXPERIENCE

100’s

OF CLIENTS HELPED

✦ your coach

Meet Dani

Hello! I'm Dani (she/her), an Emotional Health Practitioner based in California, working with clients online locally and internationally. I lead with sensitivity and fun deliberately — I've found that gallows humor travels surprisingly well into heavy emotional territory. People are often relieved to discover that emotional work doesn't require the room to feel like a funeral. Everyone is welcome here, regardless of background or identity.

✦ background

Dani’s story

I opened my practice 15 years ago with a belief I still hold: helping people become more whole is one of the most useful things a person can do with their time.

What initially began as a passion for working with the body gradually grew into something far more layered. Over time I built an approach that moves through the body first, then the emotions, then the mind, in that order, because that is the order that actually creates lasting change. Not insight alone. Not talk alone. The whole system, working together.

I know this territory not only professionally but personally. As a neurodivergent woman living with an invisible physical disability, I have navigated my own considerable share of hard seasons where loss compounded on loss, and long stretches where understanding my situation offered no way out of it. Those experiences shaped how I now listen, what I notice, and how I sit with someone when the work gets hard. They also deepened my conviction that emotional health is not a luxury. For many of us it is the difference between surviving our lives and actually living them.

That conviction is what this practice is built on.

✦ my training

Credentials

There's a difference between a weekend workshop and deep, sustained training. Here's what I've studied:

  • Clinical EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) A gentle, structured method that regulates the nervous system and shifts emotional patterns at their source. I use Clinical EFT to reduce stress, ease emotional overwhelm, and create rapid, sustainable change.

    Grief Recovery Method® A practical, evidence-based approach to grief that resolves unresolved emotional pain from loss — without requiring you to relive or over-analyze the past.

    Somatic Coaching A body-based approach that builds awareness of sensation, emotion, and nervous system responses. This work develops safety, regulation, and the ability to respond to life with choice rather than automatic reaction.

    Belief & Pattern Work (NLP & Core Transformation) A structured, inside-out method that works directly with self-concept, internal representations, and subconscious patterns. I use this approach to update limiting beliefs, resolve inner conflicts, and create precise, lasting change at the root level.

    • Certified Clinical EFT Practitioner — EFT Universe / EFT International

    • Accredited NLP Master Practitioner — iNLP Center

    • Grief Recovery Method Specialist — Grief Recovery International

    • Laughter Yoga Leader — Laughter Yoga International

    • LENS Neurofeedback Technician — Ochs Labs

    • Massage and Bodywork Therapist — Arcata School of Massage

    • 15 years in somatic and bodywork practice / 6 years coaching

  • Non-certification, continuing education.

    Smart Body, Smart Mind: 12-Week Training on Polyvagal Theory & Somatic Regulation – Irene Lyon
    In-depth exploration of nervous system regulation and somatic tools to support emotional safety and client resilience.

    8-Week Tapping Out of Trauma Training – with Craig Weiner & Suzanne Foegol for Trauma-Sensitive EFT
    Advanced techniques for applying EFT tapping safely and effectively with clients experiencing trauma.

    Trauma & Memory Course: Somatic Experiencing® Skills – Peter Levine, Ph.D.
    Learned practical tools to help understand clients processing unresolved trauma and perspectives on how to restore balance in mind and body.

    The Breathing Gym: Brain-Based Breathing Strategies – Eric Cobb, DC
    Explored evidence-based breathing techniques to support emotional regulation, performance, and pain relief.

    2-Day Grief Treatment Certification Course – Rev. Dr. Joy Samuels, LPC-MHSP, NCC
    Focused on evidence-based strategies for helping clients navigate grief, make meaning after loss, and find emotional relief.

    Social Anxiety & Perfectionism: Clinical Tools – Dr. Martin M. Antony
    Practical approaches to help clients release unrealistic standards, reduce self-criticism, and build authentic connections.

    Grief Therapy Advanced Certification Course – Multiple Expert Instructors
    Studied the latest research in neuroscience, somatics, and evidence-based grief recovery to understand ways to best support clients through unresolved grief and identity reclamation.

    2-Day Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Training – J. Eric Gentry, PhD, LMHC, DAAETS, FAAETS, CCTP
    Intensive training in trauma-informed strategies and interventions to help clients feel safe, regulated, and supported.