Dannielle Samuel

Dannielle’s vision is to maintain a happy and productive home life and grow a healthy and connected community.

With robust lived and professional experience, Dannielle has a passion for connecting people to their best selves to unleash their collective commonalities. She has in-depth counselling and group facilitation capabilities. She particularly excels at approaching conflict from a common thread perspective, providing a calm yet energizing space to open the listening mind. Dannielle is adept at energizing people, either individually or in small groups, to work towards a common goal.

She is specifically focused on issues surrounding loss, grief and post adoption supports. Dannielle’s trauma informed practice is pointed on supporting adoptive parents and their families through the life long journey to permanence.

Dannielle also has a keen interest in diversity and inclusion work, providing information and workshops on self-awareness, the concepts of antiracism, and the power of forgiveness.

Dannielle is a Registered Social Worker with over 18 years experience. She is a Black Canadian woman who is born, raised and living in Ottawa, Ontario. She lives with her husband and they are raising their teenaged kids.