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About

Dana Gillispie

Below you can read about my professional experience and credentials, but first, I'd like to share with you a little more about who I am, my evolving personal and professional journey, and what inspires me to facilitate this Sacred work.  

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A little about me.   I believe in the power of Love, Truth, and Authenticity, and feel called to guide people back home to their heart and Soul's intent.  I do ongoing work with my own shadow parts so that I can embrace and welcome the shadow parts in all of us, meeting them with light, love, respect, and curiosity.  I call people into loving relationship with themselves and others and believe we are all Divine beings underneath the adaptations that we've taken on for protection from attachment wounding, pain, and trauma.  I hold onto the knowing that through Sacred relationship, we can witness, heal, and liberate what is not yet free, and return to whom we were organically designed to be.

 

Beginning in November of 2019, a series of challenging, painful, and powerful initiations led me through a process of "dying", surrendering, shedding my protective layers, and coming more into my full authenticity.  These initiations took the form of losing a client to suicide, suffering a devastating, debilitating health crisis, and witnessing my youngest child come out as transgender.  Through these experiences, I met and accompanied my own fear, resistance, and pain through a transformative process to ultimately free myself of many of the burdens and beliefs I had been carrying for much of my life.  The result is living a more peaceful, authentic life and being able to compassionately hold space and sit with others in their darkness without agenda or discomfort.   I feel honored to get to connect my clients with their Divine Light, and to watch them come home to their authentic selves.   I believe in the ripple effect of healing and enjoy working with others who envision and take action toward an equitable, loving world where oppressive systems no longer dominate (or even exist!), generations of trauma are healed, relationships are the valued currency, and all human beings are loved and accepted for whom they authentically are. 

 

I am incredibly grateful for my supportive husband of 21 years, and for my two teenage children who continue to teach me every day about living authentically, creatively, and beyond the norms of conventional, cultural expectations.  I treasure living in beautiful North Carolina following our move 6 years ago from the Austin, Texas area. I love being connected with nature, going on walks, meditating, traveling, and most of all- connecting with others.  If you feel called to reach out to me, I look forward to connecting with you. 

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Experience

Professional Background & Credentials

I began my career working in non-profits with women, children, adolescents, and families who were navigating the impacts of intimate partner violence and sexual abuse.  My work evolved over nine years to include casework and advocacy, support and therapeutic groups, individual therapy, and parent guidance. I closed out my non-profit career as Director of Child and Adolescent Counseling, where I supervised counselors and interns while continuing my clinical work with clients impacted by current and generational trauma.

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I moved into private practice in 2005, working with the mostly-military population of Fort Hood, TX, where I specialized in treating combat-related trauma and worked with children, adults and families impacted by separation and reintegration. 

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Three years later, I opened my private practice in Round Rock, TX, where I practiced for nine years before moving to North Carolina in January of 2018.  I enjoyed working with all individuals — children, adolescents, adults, couples, and parents during my time in Round Rock.  My specialties included anxiety, trauma (generational abuse, attachment, and military trauma), post-partum anxiety and depression, family relationships, and work with other mental health professionals. 

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Currently, I work mostly with clients with a trauma background, and with those who are also in the healing profession and are specifically seeking IFS to deepen their personal and professional growth.

Qualifications

Licenses & Relevant Training

  • Licensed Clinical Social Worker- Licensed in North Carolina and Texas

  • BA Psychology, Texas Tech University

  • M.S.S.W., The University of Texas at Arlington

  • NASW member

  • Level 2 Trained Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapist (with additional training in IFS and Legacy Burdens, IFS and Psychedelics, IFS with Couples, IFS with Addiction, IFS and Neuroscience, and Accessing and Living from the Self- IFS and Meditation.

  • Certified IFS Therapist

  • Approved IFS Clinical Consultant

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