Danielle Batchelor is a coach, educator, researcher, and the creator of neuroflourish. She serves on the teaching team for The Neuroscience of Learning: An Introduction to Mind, Brain, Health and Education at the Harvard University Division of Continuing Education, and co-facilitates Holding Motherhood: A Container to Explore the Flipside of Being a Mom. Through neuroflourish, she wants to play a role in helping more people—and more kinds of people—gain access to the support tools necessary to improve mental health and social emotional well-being and to flourish. Danielle works through a relational lens to help clients identify and explore blind and sore spots and practice values-driven, emotionally intelligent behaviors, in service of personal and professional development. She has a particular interest in working with:

• women as they juggle life's demands, nurture wellbeing, define success and balance

• parents and educators as they tackle the awe-inspiring (and sometimes maddening) experiences of raising and growing children

• couples and dyads interested in cultivating better relationships (often by identifying and breaking legacy patterns and modeling relational mindfulness for children and others)

• adolescents and young adults as they navigate the social and emotional adjustment to adulthood

• professionals interested in integrating relational emotionally intelligent practices into work and play

      Danielle earned a master's degree from Harvard (field of Psychology) where she was a recipient of the Dean’s List Academic Achievement Award. She conducted her master's thesis study through the Harvard Graduate School of Education, exploring high school teacher mindsets and their attitudes on social emotional learning (SEL) in secondary schools (nominated for The Dean’s Prize). Danielle is a Certified Health and Well-being Coach with a certificate in Lifestyle Medicine Coaching (Wellcoaches, American College of Lifestyle Medicine). She has completed extensive RLT coach training with Terry Real's Relational Life Institute, Wellcoaches' advanced Professional Coach Training, and has fulfilled eligibility requirements for the ICF PCC credential application. She regularly participates in professional development to keep learning and growing (e.g., 16 hour training in group therapy with Houston Group Psychotherapy Society, multi-month leadership coaching with BetterUp, coaching in leadership and healthcare programs offered by Harvard/McLean's Institute of Coaching, and programs offered by Harvard's Petrie Flom Center, Center for Law, Brain and Behavior, Graduate School of Education, and others).

      A testament to neuroplasticity and one’s ability to learn throughout the lifespan (think: old dog, new tricks!), Danielle started her academic journey as an undergraduate studying musical theater at Northwestern University. She worked at CBS International in New York City before becoming a project & client services manager at Shockwave.com in San Francisco (later MTVNetworks). Upon moving to Houston, Texas, she founded a small business (Coulson’s Crib, LLC.) and earned two U.S. Patents. Danielle returned to school in her 40s because she wanted to shift to a helping field and is fascinated by people (how they think, behave, interact, and move through life). At Harvard she studied a range of topics including positive psychology, resilience and coping, the psychology of diversity, pediatric anxiety and OCD, and concepts of how humans learn. She is a member of the Houston Group Psychotherapy Society and the American Group Psychotherapy Association, as well as the Institute of Coaching at Harvard/McLean, Wellcoaches School of Coaching, and the Relational Life Institute.

      Danielle is a Co-Director of the Alumni Admission Council for Northwestern University (Houston area) and has served on the boards and in other capacities for The Children's Fund, The Houston Symphony, Carnegie Vanguard High School PTO, St. Mark's Episcopal School, and The Jung Center of Houston. She is certified to register voters in Texas. Danielle is married to her high school sweetheart(!) and is a mom, friend, painter, lifelong learner, music lover, and “theater-geek”!