Dania M. King is a Licensed Professional Counselor (OH), a Certified Professional Life Coach and licensed and ordained Evangelist with over 25 years of experience in human service, non-profit administration and training, motivational teaching, and ecclesiastical service. Dania earned her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Malone University, and her bachelor’s degree in Human Development and Family Studies with a concentration in Family Life Education from Kent State University.

As a counselor, Dania has worked in office, community, residential, and school-based settings and has experience working with children, adolescent, and at-risk youth, individuals that have experienced sexual assault, domestic violence, and intimate partner violence, substance use disorders/addictions, and the pastoral and ministerial population. Dania integrates approaches in therapy including cognitive behavioral therapy, brief solution focus therapy, person-centered, motivational interviewing, bibliotherapy, and biblical Christian principles to meet the needs of individuals experiencing anxiety and stress related disorders, emotional regulation disorders, adjustment disorders, and family/parent-child adjustments.

As a certified professional life coach, Dania works with individuals who are seeking wholeness and healing from narcissistic and relationship abuse, young adults transitioning from high school to adulthood, and individuals seeking fulfillment later in life.

Dania believes no matter the state of an individual, everyone deserves empathy, compassion, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard. Clients of Dania remark on her ability to establish rapport, to be non-judgmental and “real”, and appreciate her supporting them in remembering their strengths.

Dania is a recurring teacher for Peek Institute Training and Professional Development, and presents and teaches at local, state, and national events and churches on teen and adult mental health wellness, suicide prevention and awareness, integrating bibliotherapy and puppetry with preschool/pre-k clients, and biblical principles.