Danielle M. Herrera AMFT

I am a tender-hearted and non-pathologizing psychotherapist, primarily trained and practiced in Harm Reduction and Psychedelic Psychotherapy. My lens prioritizes a decolonized framework, with attunement to systemic oppressions and violences that impact the individual within a complicated ecosystem. I utilize an emotion-focused, person-centered, and somatic approach and am committed to meeting you where you are, while working with you at your pace. I utilize Indigenous practices, ritual and ceremony, as well as other non-traditional healing modalities and systems when appropriate and desirable with clients. The initiation of trauma, spiritual emergence, integration of non-ordinary states of consciousness, and death/dying are but a few of my most comfortable human experiences to receive the honor to work with. I welcome and embrace your multidimensional and ineffible self — including alternative and/or fringe identities not limited to those radical/rebellious, queer, kink, polyamorous, sex-workers, drug-users, houseless, intuitives, and otherwise outside of the mainstream.

In psychotherapy sessions with me, you can expect your autonomy and boundaries to be respected with utmost importance, and held with warmth, compassion, and understanding. You will be held in a container designed for your unique experience of transformation, archetypal embodiment, or simply a place for becoming unstuck. You will leave feeling seen, heard, deeply valued, expanded into the space that is both your body and the universe around you. It would be an honor to hold a sacred space with you, for the healing of you and your intergenerational lineage alike.

I received my Master’s in Counseling Psychology from USF and my BA in Psychology from UCLA, albeit the breadth of my experience is grounded in my lived identities and in my practices of a multiplicity of counseling and therapeutic roles for the past decade. My current clinical roles also include my service provided under the Harm Reduction Therapy Center, where I work with clients in exploring their relationships to drug use and other complex and often stigmatized or misrepresented facets of their lives.

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