About Me
Daniela Perone, Ph.D.
I am a psychologist — but you might also call me a healer, a seeker, a bridge between worlds, and someone who has done her own time in the dark.
I came to this work through my own journey of healing, self-inquiry, and shadow — a journey I believe is lifelong.
I know what it's like to be the capable one, the strong one, the one who holds it together while quietly falling apart inside. I know what it's like to sense that something essential has been buried — under roles, under adaptation, under the weight of being who everyone needed you to be. And I know what it feels like when that buried thing starts knocking.
That knocking is what brought me here. And it's probably part of what brought you here, too.
I Walk the Middle Path
I am not a traditional "buttoned-up" therapist who nods from across the room. I am engaged, interactive, and deeply present. As an empath raised in New York, shaped by 11 transformative years in California, and rooted now in North Carolina, I've cultivated the art of speaking difficult truths with loving kindness. I will call you forward when you're ready — always with compassion, care, and respect — and I can teach you how to do the same in your own life.
I exist at a specific intersection, and I've learned it's exactly where many of my clients need someone to be.
I offer depth and grounding for those who've found that many spiritual spaces bypass trauma, avoid the shadow, or trade genuine integration for transcendence. And I offer soul and expansiveness for those who've found that traditional clinical settings miss the language of energy, meaning, and higher consciousness entirely.
Where science meets spirit. Where evidence-based method meets archetypal depth. Where the psychological and the sacred are not in opposition — they are in conversation.
That's the middle path. That's where we work.
How We Work Together
My integrative approach draws from Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, clinical hypnosis, transpersonal psychology, somatic therapies, and the tradition of Jungian depth psychology.
Together, these approaches allow us to work at multiple levels simultaneously:
At the level of the nervous system — releasing trauma stored in the body, building felt safety, and helping your system learn that the emergency is over.
At the level of parts — meeting the protectors, the exiles, the inner critics, and the managers that have been running the show. Understanding what they carry and what they need. Giving them permission to rest.
At the level of the shadow — exploring what's been disowned, suppressed, or projected. Reclaiming the anger that was too dangerous, the grief that had no witness, the desire that felt forbidden, the self that felt like too much. Shadow integration is not about darkness for its own sake. It's about wholeness. The gold, as Jung said, is in the shadow.
At the level of meaning and soul — exploring what this chapter of your life is asking of you. What the recurring patterns, dreams, and symbols are trying to say. Who you are becoming, and what you're being called toward.
The space we create in therapy is sacred and free of judgment. A sanctuary where you can feel what needs to be felt, speak what needs to be spoken, move what needs to be moved, and see — clearly, compassionately — what has been living in the dark.
Credentials & Training Background
My professional title is Clinical Psychologist. I am dually licensed by the North Carolina and California Boards of Psychology (NC 5123, CA 26146).
I earned my doctorate from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (Sofia University) in Palo Alto, CA — a program that takes the full spectrum of human experience seriously, including the unconscious, the symbolic, the archetypal, and the liminal. My training integrates Western and Eastern approaches to psychotherapy and research, and grounds me in a tradition that treats the psyche not as a problem to be solved, but as a landscape to be explored with curiosity and reverence.
I have worked across a wide range of clinical settings — hospitals, outpatient medical clinics, inpatient and outpatient gender-specific addiction recovery programs, and years in private practice in both California and North Carolina. I have been working in the mental health field since 2005.
Specialized training includes:
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Clinical Hypnosis
Transpersonal and Depth Psychology
Yoga (RYT 200 since 2013; practicing since 2006)
I incorporate somatic and embodiment practices — including breath, movement, and hypnosis — when appropriate, weaving together the wisdom of the body with the insights of the deeper mind.
My deepest wish…
My deepest wish is for you to live authentically, creatively, and joyfully — in full relationship with yourself, including the parts that have been waiting the longest to be seen.
The shadow is not your enemy. It is the part of you still waiting to be welcomed home.
When you're ready, I'm here.