Bio

Danielle M. Herrera, LMFT

Danielle has spent her lifetime understanding the depth of the human experience in the realm of drug use, addiction recovery, and harm reduction. She was among the first generation of clinicians to train in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. Now, she runs a group private practice, Tender Heart Healing Arts, where she sees clients at her Berkeley office and virtually in California, providing psychedelic psychotherapy (ketamine-assisted) and integration; faith-based psychotherapy; spiritual emergence integration; and couples/relationship, family, and friendship therapy.

Danielle is a course facilitator with Beckley Academy; a supervisor and clinical consultant for Alchemy Community Therapy, California Institute of Integral Studies, and Center for Mindful Psychotherapy; and serves on the Board of Directors for DanceSafe National. She facilitates training for practitioners in the foundations of relationship-first psychedelic-assisted therapies from a decolonial lens. Her framework is Jungian, emotion-focused, somatic, and spiritual, and centers warmth and relationships. She has experience and works enthusiastically with Indigenous, Sufi/Muslim, Christian, Catholic, Yogic, and Pagan traditions, as they may be relevant to her clients.

Danielle focuses on careful attunement to big-picture narratives, structures, and systems that impact her clients within a complicated ecosystem, while helping clients with meaning-making and emerging into a life of vitality and love. In her wide experience of healing complex traumas, she brings in her own culturally Indigenous traditions as well as her study and practice in initiated mysticism to respond directly to ancestral and intergenerational wounds. Passionate about honoring and uplifting the complexity of each person's individuality, she especially loves working with outsiders and outliers of all types and helps them find their place in the web of life.