Dr. Danielle Nahas is a certified life coach and California-licensed psychologist with over 20 years of professional experience. She has completed postdoctoral training in clinical neuropsychology, is a behavior analyst at the doctoral level, and has been providing telehealth services for more than eight years.
As a psychologist, Dr. Nahas integrates evidence-based strategies from multiple therapeutic approaches and tailors interventions to the unique needs, goals, strengths, and cultural background of each client. In psychotherapy, her primary orientation is cognitive-behavioral, while also incorporating solution-focused, family systems, psychodynamic, and applied behavior analytic perspectives when appropriate. She is fluent in both English and Portuguese.
In addition to her work as a psychologist, behavior analyst, and certified life coach, Dr. Nahas is currently studying psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and is particularly interested in integrative, holistic, and emerging approaches to mental health. She believes in combining scientific rigor with compassion, curiosity, and respect for each individual’s personal story and life experience.
Dr. Nahas helps clients understand the relationships among their thoughts, emotions, behaviors, relationships, and environment, while also supporting them in building insight, resilience, healthier coping strategies, and greater self-understanding. She is known for being warm, approachable, genuine, and compassionate, and for creating an emotionally safe and respectful space where clients feel heard, understood, and supported.
Dr. Nahas has extensive experience working with ethnically, linguistically, and culturally diverse populations, and values providing care that is inclusive, individualized, and culturally sensitive.
Dr. Nahas approaches life coaching as a collaborative and goal-oriented process focused on helping clients clarify what they want, identify what may be holding them back, and create practical steps toward meaningful change. She works with clients who may feel stuck, overwhelmed, uncertain, or ready for a new chapter in their personal or professional lives.
Her coaching style is supportive, encouraging, and action-oriented. She helps clients build self-awareness, strengthen confidence, improve motivation, and develop healthier habits and patterns. Drawing from cognitive-behavioral, solution-focused, and behavioral principles, Dr. Nahas helps clients identify unhelpful thought patterns, overcome obstacles, and create realistic plans aligned with their values and goals.
Dr. Nahas has a particular interest in helping clients navigate life transitions, relationship patterns, career changes, personal growth, stress management, self-esteem, and finding greater balance and fulfillment. She views coaching as an empowering process that helps clients reconnect with their strengths, increase accountability, and move toward the life they want to create.
