Darlene is a Professionally Certified Life Coach, Spiritual Mentor, Hypnotherapist, and instructor specializing in NeuroLinguistics, Emotional Freedom Technique, (EFT) Energy Balance Healing, and Neurofeedback. She currently practices in Sarasota FL as well as supporting clients all over the country. Her extensive studies in holistic healing have led to success in helping people of all ages relieve emotional and physical pain, while putting into practice a plan for success. She incorporates techniques which are designed to recognize and correct dysfunctional, life-inhibiting patterns as well as address cycles of illness and trauma. Darlene assists her clients in helping to transform feelings of fear, confusion, and anxiety in order to gain the increased self-awareness and understanding that can lead to health, wholeness and feeling truly connected with ourselves and others.
Darlene Coleman is a Professionally Certified Life Coach, Certified Hypnotherapist, speaker, and transformational guide with a multidisciplinary background in human behavior, emotional wellness, nervous-system regulation, and personal transformation. Her professional education includes certification through Bennett-Stellar University, paramedic training through George Washington University, and Fire Science studies through the University of Maryland. She has also completed extensive specialized training in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), Ericksonian Hypnosis, neurofeedback, BAUD, somatic practices, motivational interviewing, and complementary approaches to personal growth and emotional well-being. Before entering the coaching and wellness field, Darlene served in the United States Marine Corps, where she was meritoriously promoted twice and honorably discharged. She later worked as a professional firefighter and paramedic in the greater Washington, D.C. area. Her background also includes nearly a decade in mortgage lending, giving her a rare understanding of leadership, high-pressure decision-making, major life transitions, and the emotional realities people face both personally and professionally. Darlene has hosted the TV show Fire and Rescue Digest and The Inner View radio show, contributed to Transformation Magazine, and facilitated workshops and corporate wellness programs. Today, she brings together professional training, decades of real-world experience, and a deeply intuitive understanding of human transformation to help people move through change, reconnect with themselves, and create lives that feel meaningful, authentic, and fully their own.
When I was in my early thirties, I packed up my belongings and moved from Virginia to Florida leaving behind a relationship, friends, family, and a job that had afforded me a very nice, affluent, lifestyle. I arrived stressed out, burned out, depressed, anxious, angry, and empty. I seemingly had everything I ever wanted, and yet I was lost.
I thought if I moved, I might feel better, but as the old saying goes, “No matter where you go, there you are,” and I was still me, feeling horrible in Florida.
The truth is, I was running from myself. I was running from a lifetime of pain, fear, disappointment, and heartache. Running, from things that were too big and too deep to get my mind around, and these feelings became too much to ignore. Many of these feelings began to surface in my 20’s when I was working as a Paramedic/Firefighter. I experienced a series of traumatic emergency calls that haunted me. I didn’t know how to “let it go.” This took a serious toll on my mental, emotional, and physical health, and I fell into a deep depression.
I wondered how I could heal and if it were even possible? That question started me on a 20+ year journey that would alter the course of my life forever. I have spent the past 2 decades deep-diving into therapies and philosophies which help to move trauma through the body, as well as change the negative emotions and stories in our minds to allow for greater peace, self-love, and well-being.
I am forever grateful to those who helped me along the way, and I’m honored to be part of your process.
