Meet Your Therapist & Life Coach

Dora Daniels, MA, LMFT
(she, her, hers)
Licensed Psychotherapist
Northlight Individual and Family Therapy, Inc.

Hello & Welcome!

I’m a licensed mental health provider with over seven years’ experience offering individual therapy, group workshops, psychological evaluations and life coaching services. I specialize in helping individuals and organizations experiencing high stress and anxiety in the home and workplace with a focus on personal growth and self-care. I'm committed to helping you learn how to recover, build coping skills and to create a more fulfilling, joyful life.

In online session together, you will have a safe space to process your feelings, learn more about your values and be challenged gently. As your therapist and life coach, I’m warm, empathic, motivating, non-judgmental and empowering. I believe there’s a part of you that already knows what you need.

I am also a trained and certified Immigration Psychological Evaluations provider. Our immigration evaluations are designed to complement the case you are working on with your attorney. I provide culturally sensitive, multilingual (Spanish, English, French) services, based on your needs.

All services are provided online through telehealth via secure phone and video for your convenience, through the use of HIPAA-compliant platforms. We take your privacy seriously. Private pay, fees collected at time of service. Currently accepting new clients for individual therapy, life coaching, burnout workshops and immigration psychological evaluations, adults 18+. *Therapy and Immigration Evaluation clients must be California residents. Life Coaching and Burnout Workshop clients accepted internationally.

You deserve to meet your best self. Take the next step, let’s connect and get you some relief.

Warmly,
Dora

Dora Daniels, MA, LMFT #128385
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (she, her, hers)
Northlight Individual and Family Therapy, Inc. ddaniels@northlighttherapy.com
+1 415-569-0834 (text line)

FAQs

  • The difference between our services and others is that we have a sensitivity for the need to keep your private health information confidential with regards to your employment. When you sign up for other services or use health insurance for a lower fee, you pay a hidden cost. Your therapist or provider has to share your information with insurance agencies and possibly other parties in order to get reimbursed. This compromises the therapeutic process and may expose your diagnosis and treatment to employers. With private pay, you remain in control of who has access to your private health information.

  • Therapy can help you understand the roots of your problems and how these patterns are showing up in your current situation. Life Coaching can help you hone in and reconnect to your purpose and passion and focus on your vision for your future. All you have to do is to show up with a desire to change and do something different.

  • My approach is rooted in an understanding of neurodiversity. Your work with me is client-centered, empowering, and grounding. As your therapist, I use evidence-based therapies to match your needs, such as insight-oriented psychodynamic, CBT, DBT and narrative approaches. As your Life Coach, you benefit from a holistic orientation, learning mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing to assist you in exploring, envisioning, and manifesting your dreams into concrete, achievable tasks.

  • We meet through a secure video link for 50-minutes. In session, we work on increasing your coping skills, stress management, and goal exploration. This is your journey of self-discovery and growth. You get to decide what you want to work on, and we co-create your treatment plan.

  • Accepted forms of payment include: Debit, Credit Cards, and Stripe (via online patient portal).

  • My work is culturally responsive and I am able to provide services in English, Spanish, and French.

  • We begin by scheduling a free 30-minute chat to see where you’re at and what your needs are at this time. If you feel it’s a good fit, we schedule your first intake session through a secure client portal. You are sent instructions on filling out intake paperwork. We meet on the date and time that works best for you with given availability.

  • Feel free to send us an email at:
    info@northlighttherapy.com

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A moment of self-compassion can change your entire day. A string of such moments can change the course of your life.

— Christopher K. Germer

CAMFT Member
Learn more: https://www.camft.org/