Danielle Batchelor is a coach, educator, researcher, and the creator of neuroflourish.com. 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 is working to translate the science of well-being into generative, actionable practices for coaching clients.

Danielle has a particular interest in working with women as they juggle life's many demands and work toward balance, parents and educators as they tackle the awe-inspiring (and sometimes maddening) experiences of raising and growing children, and adolescents as they navigate the social and emotional adjustment to adulthood. She also enjoys working with professionals who want to cultivate emotional intelligence in order to lead, live, and love with integrity, and with couples and groups who are interested in practicing full respect relational living (for the self and others).

Background & Training: Danielle is a Certified Health and Well-being Coach with a certificate in Lifestyle Medicine Coaching (Wellcoaches, American College of Lifestyle Medicine), and is currently working to earn her Wellcoaches CPHWC (professional coach certification) and the ICF PCC credentials. She has completed additional training in group and relational therapies and is also pursuing certification as a Relational Life Therapy Coach through Terry Real's Relational Life Institute. 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). She is a member of the Houston Group Psychotherapy Society and the American Group Psychotherapy Association, the Institute of Coaching at Harvard/McLean, Wellcoaches School of Coaching, and the Relational Life Institute.

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 we think, behave, interact, and move through life). 

Danielle is Co-Director of the Alumni Admission Council for Northwestern University (Houston area) and serves both Carnegie Vanguard High School as Chair of the CVHS PTO's College Readiness Programming and The Jung Center of Houston as a committee member. She is also certified to register voters in Texas. Danielle is married to her high school sweetheart(!) and is mom to two teenage boys, a friend, painter, lifelong learner, music lover, and “theater-geek”!