Danielle Herrera

Danielle Herrera (she/hers) has a long history working with “addictions,” recovery, and harm reduction in community mental health and private practice as a psychotherapist. She currently runs Tender Hearts Healing Arts and sees clients in Oakland (Ohlone land) and virtually in California, is a course facilitator with Beckley Academy, a supervisor and clinical consultant for Alchemy Community Therapy Center and California Institute of Integral Studies, and serves on the board of directors for DanceSafe National. At Beckley, she facilitates training for practitioners in the foundations of relationally-centered psychedelic assisted therapies from a decolonized lens. Her framework is Jungian, emotion-focused, somatic, and spiritual, centering Indigenous epistemologies, ritual, and ceremony. Danielle focuses on careful attunement to systemic oppressions that impact the individual within a complicated ecosystem while helping clients with meaning-making. She has always been drawn to the “outsiders” and loves working with people experiencing spiritual emergence or emergency, exploring non-ordinary states of consciousness or mystical experiences, Queer & Trans BIPOC, people who use drugs, and others outside of the mainstream.