Danielle Herrera
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist #124770
she/her
Interested in clinical consultation or supervision? Please submit your request using the form on our Consultation page.
Fluent in English
Conversational American Sign Language
Danielle is a daughter, sister, friend, auntie, Lover, poet, avid reader, and student of Inayati-Maimuni Sufism. She is a queer, detribalized mixed-Indigenous woman of Chiricahua Apache, Pascua Yaqui, Chicana, and Filipina descent. Danielle was born and raised in San Pedro, California (Tongva Land), and currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area (Ohlone Land).
Professionally Danielle serves as a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor and consult, and educator. She has over 10 years of experience in a counseling capacity, beginning with her work as a peer counselor during her freshman year at UCLA. With reference to her work, Danielle likes to say that she “get[s] to love people for a living.”
Danielle founded Tender Heart Healing Arts in January 2024 in order to provide employment for and mentorship to select supervisees who align with the ethos of Danielle’s practice. She takes a decolonial, non-pathologizing, harm reduction approach to psychotherapy and to her clients, and believes deeply in the power and efficacy of Spirit and Love in the therapeutic process.
Although Danielle’s caseload is mostly full, she is happy to receive inquiries from clients and provide referrals to trusted clinicians if needed.
