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Clinician's Approach

Danesha's approach for individuals, families, and the community is to promote holistic wellness.  She connects the ability to incorporate  integrative psycho-educational modalities, practices of mindfulness, and expressive art therapy techniques to help you grow from a life of carrying those heavy feelings inside to effective coping.  She works with her client's to help them learn effective skills to get off their routine “go-mode” of life and promote balance and stress release. As a National Certified Counselor, Danesha  holds value in collaborating with community partners to promote social change.  As a Coach, she uses an array of skills to provide services that give you solution focused tools for success.  As a Certified Trauma Professional,  she believes that the individual is a part of a greater system and each shares a role for cohesion and support.  As a wellness consultant, she  takes a deeper view into how each work employee contributes to personal and workplace wellness. 

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Clinician's History

Danesha graduated from The University of Memphis with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Research and Education. While in undergraduate studies, Danesha served as a peer advisor for incoming and transfer students within the Psychology Department of U of M.  While completing her studies, she met the need for peer support and began a teen girl's mentoring program at her high school Alma Mater labeled "Strength Matters."​

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After beginning her counseling career in her home town, Memphis, TN, she moved to Florida in 2019. In response to corporate healthcare burnout, she pivoted into private practice. In 2021, she birthed both Dream Identity Counseling and her son.  Through the journey of new beginnings, endings, life transitions, complex grief and intentional joy, she continues to cultivate and create her own "Dream Identity."

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14 years of service within the following Healthcare industries:

• Dual mental health and personality diagnostic Counselor

• Substance Use and Addiction Recovery Counselor

• Family Systems Counselor for domestic violence victims and witnesses

• Prison & Recidivism Counselor for domestic violence offenders reintegrating society and family systems 

• Child Play Therapy Technique Counselor with youth within Salvation Army foster care and housing population

• Youth Camp Counselor for teens of Dream Memphis, a program developed through the Historical Black College, LeMoyne Owen College.

• ​Lead Adolescent therapist at an Acute Crisis Hospitalization for teen girls and adults

• Lead Behavioral Health Residential Treatment Counselor for teen boys

• Traveling Therapist Independent Contractor for the Lee County Public School System 

• Independent Contract Therapist for Lifescape Counseling Services Private Practice​

• Business Wellness Consulting and curriculums for contracted companies and organizations

• Creative Wellness through Art-to-Heart expressive arts program 

• Counseling Professor of Human Services & Counseling Department of Hillsborough College.  Her

 

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Certifications

• Licensed Mental Health Counselor #22427

• National Certified Counselor

• Certified Family Trauma Professional

• Certified Expressive Therapies: Creative Interventions for Emotional Regulation and Self-Awareness 

• Certified Mindfulness Instructor

• Clinical Tele-mental Health Certification

• Certified Chronic Disease Management Trainer

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Danesha continues to bridge the gap of Mental Health awareness through innovating wellness events, programming and teaching initiatives to help create a well community.