The Empowered Therapist offers consultation, training, and speaking experiences focused on trauma-informed care, somatic and attachment-based healing, therapist sustainability, leadership and workplace safety and efficiency, and relational work. Our goal is to create conversations that are clinically and professionally meaningful, emotionally honest, and grounded in both practical application and human-centered connection.
Each of us has over 15 years of experience in the mental health field, facilitating difficult conversations, promoting emotional and relational safety and cohesion in the workplace, and encouraging self-reflection and goal-oriented changes. If you’re needing highly skilled presenters, facilitators, or consultants for your organization, event, conference, or workplace meeting, schedule a consultation call so we can discuss the potential of working together.
Facilitated by: Dr. Danica Harris, SEP & Dr. Brittany Escuriex, SEP
Consulting for therapists & organizations
Professional Consultation
Topics we speak on: Here are the conversations we care deeply about creating
- Learning how every part of you belongs in professional spaces
- Remembering who the f*ck you are and what you have to offer
- Breaking people-pleasing and perfectionistic habits that are getting in your way
- Creating strategies for burnout that focus on more rather than less
- Fostering self-trust, learning how to take up space, and fine-tuning your intuition
- Building a growth mindset while tending to scarcity fears
Identity & Empowerment
- Learning how relationship concerns are more than just communication issues
- Couples work through a somatic and embodied lens
- Rupture and repair and building a healthy conflict resolution style
- Boundaries, self-abandonment, and relational patterns
- Attachment and nervous system regulation as a primary goal
- Fostering development of intimacy across six domains
Relationship Dynamics & Attachment
- Learning how your impact on others is more important than your knowledge
- Effective leadership styles and approaches
- Fostering cohesion while supporting team member individuality
- Conflict resolution skills with a diverse team or staff
- Navigating the loneliness of leadership
- Attending to the challenges of being a leader without taking it out on your team
Leadership Development & Performance
- Learning what graduate school should have taught you but didn’t
- Burnout prevention for therapists
- Leadership and group practice culture
- Building practices that support your nervous system
- Holding space during sociopolitical stress
- Building trauma-informed business practices
Therapist Development & Sustainability
- Learning why trauma healing must take place in the body
- Somatic approaches that support nervous system and complex trauma healing
- Decreasing dissociation and building embodied safety
- Building capacity and internal tolerance for therapists and clients
- Trauma-informed relational work with clients and colleagues
- Creating a somatic toolbox that you can pair with any theoretical approach
Trauma & Somatic Healing
Dr. Brittany Escuriex, SEP
As a child and teenager, I found my voice and my love for performing for others on the stage. Spending my free time in drama and dance taught me that people can hear any message, so long as you present it to them in a way they can receive it. My love for connecting with others transformed into a passion for teaching, presenting, and consultation when I was in graduate school where I got to hone my presentation skills in professional settings. I first began as an educator within my university, and that evolved into consultation and presenting through my outreach and advocacy efforts. When I’m working as a facilitator, I deeply value a combination of shared knowledge, connection with others, engaging in difficult dialogue, and working toward desired growth and change. My style is warm, relatable, and accessible, and I love infusing playfulness and levity into professional conversations.
Dr. Danica Harris and Dr. Brittany Escuriex have ten years of experience facilitating together, and over 20 years of experience individually presenting and facilitating in a professional capacity. They have built a highly successful group therapy practice in Dallas, Texas with 21 team members and have offered trainings and consultations to therapists and professionals across the U.S. and internationally. Their styles complement each other well, and their shared and unique knowledge make them a great fit for group or solo presentations.
I first fell in love with public speaking when I worked as a skin-care educator for an international skin-care company in my early 20’s. Looking back on that time now, I’m amazed at my ability to stand in front of large audiences at such an early time in my professional career, and that experience taught me something that has been foundational as I have progressed as a speaker, educator, facilitator, and professional. Through this experience I learned that if you are present and available to the room you are in, then you’ll be giving them the best of you and what you have to offer. In the years since, I have continued to show up as present and available as a university professor, a consultant, a speaker, an advocate, and a leader in a way that fosters growth, connection, and necessary change. My facilitation style is fiercely gentle, engaging, and relational, and I am extremely passionate about supporting other professionals as they navigate challenging, growth-oriented, and important conversations and experiences in personal and professional spaces.
Dr. Danica Harris, SEP
More about your presenters:
Consultation services
- Creating healthier organizational cultures that support employee engagement, resilience, and retention
- Assisting in creating sustainable systems that support both efficiency and employee wellbeing
- Helping teams identify and address burnout, overwhelm, and chronic workplace stress
- Addressing communication challenges with greater clarity, accountability, and connection
- Enhancing team functioning through relationally informed conflict management
Corporate Consultation
- Conflict resolution for difficult group dynamics
- Highlighting relational needs across team members or departments
- Evaluating current administrative practices and systems
- Assisting with development of standard operating procedures
- Building training programming and materials for internal or external use
Universities & Non-profit Consultation
- Group practice and office development
- Therapist/Healer leadership and team culture
- Ethical, trauma-informed business practices
- Burnout prevention for helping professionals
- Marketing strategy, social media, and website development
Practice & Leadership Consultation for Group Practices & Wellness Spaces
- Trauma-focused case consultation
- Somatic Experiencing integration
- Attachment and relational dynamics
- Complex trauma treatment planning
- Individual or group consultation available
Clinical consultation for therapists and healers
Who we work with
- Therapists
- Group practices
- Universities
- Agencies and Non-Profits
- Wellness organizations
- Retreat and conference leaders and organizers
- Corporate wellness spaces
- Training programs
- Corporations with large-scale teams
- Industry Leaders
- Entrepreneurs
- Owners and Founders
- C-Suite Executives
- Human Resources Professionals
- And maybe you, if you’re interested!
In every professional space we’ve occupied, we have each been selected to be leaders, trainers, speakers, and facilitators. We are incredibly transparent and forthcoming with what we know and are able to present on, and what is outside of our scope, thus allowing our expertise and knowledge to be front and center. Our focus on building sustainability and healthy relational practices allows us to see both the collective and individual experience in the professional settings we enter. Our anti-oppressive lens and trauma-informed approach, promote safety and equity among diverse groups and allow us to be safety minded while we are working with you.
You’ll get the knowledge and skills you need from a training, presentation, or consultation with us, and you’ll also get us as full and complete humans. We are highly adaptable in the moment, and will flex to meet the needs of the group, in whatever way they arise. You and your organization will be safe in our hands.
What makes our work different?
Some Previous Speaking and Training Engagements and Experiences:
- Featured contributor in HuffPost
- Invited Commencement Speaker for Texas Woman’s University
- Invited Keynote at Non-profit organizations focused on domestic violence and sexual assault
- Facilitator for LGBTQ+ programming for universities and organizations
- Invited by Dallas ISD to host mental health training for administrators
- Podcast guest on nationally recognized podcasts
- Invited presenter at state-wide, national, and internationall mental health conferences
- Invited trainer for group therapy practices
- Invited facilitator for medical team wellness event
- Invited trainer at Rhodes College and Texas Woman’s University for graduate students in mental health
- International trainings on complex trauma, somatic experiencing techniques, OCD, fatphobia, power dynamics, and more
- Facilitated wellness panel for graduate students
- Division wide trainings for the University of Texas at Dallas
- Facilitator anti-racism training in professional environment amongst a divided team
- Group facilitator for University division in conflict
Testimonials/Feedback
"Thank you for designing such a thoughtful experience for us, I truly appreciated it and felt so honored to be a part of today’s discussion"
"This was excellent, dynamic, and engaging! The materials were an excellent resource."
"The quality of the presentation was wonderful - it felt like fun!"
“I feel the presenters were very knowledgeable and helpful!”
"Both Drs are very knowledgeable, professional and encouraging!"
"I really enjoyed this training and found it super helpful!"
"This was so well organized, approachable, and informative."
"Great training! The trainers were very knowledgeable!"
"I enjoy the actual Trainers and their abundance of knowledge, while I was resistant at first I now think I will enjoy integrating Somatic therapy with EMDR or using as a stand-alone modality. Thank you so much for your time to train our team :)"
"I enjoyed the safe environment and how attentive the facilitators were to the needs of the attendees."
"I think it was an interesting training and informative. I appreciated that it wasn't information overload."
"loved it! appreciated the mix of interactive hands-on learning of techniques, teaching from different perspectives, and group discussion"
"This was a fantastic and interactive training! I loved it!"
"This was an amazing training! You did a great job at explaining sometimes intimidating SE concepts and applying them to working with OCD and phobias. Thank you for creating this training and making it available online."
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