Here, your experiences are met with compassion, curiosity, and respect, with space to feel understood and supported as you are. Explore grief support, neurodivergence, relationships, or career growth through services designed around your specific needs.
Living Careers was created by Danielle Sheppard, LPCC, to offer thoughtful support beyond a traditional one-size-fits-all model. Here, grief receives dedicated care. Neurodiversity is approached through deeper understanding, practical skills, and self-acceptance. Career and relationship concerns are addressed according to their own needs.
Danielle’s work is neurodiversity-affirming, LGBTQ+-affirming, client-centered, and trauma-informed.

An autism or ADHD diagnosis can provide an explanation for experiences that previously felt confusing or unsupported.
This self-paced class helps adults and parents better understand neurodivergence, build practical skills, identify useful supports, and develop a more compassionate relationship with themselves or someone they love.

Danielle Sheppard is a California Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, psychology professor, educator, speaker, Certified Grief Educator, and Certified Grief Coach.
She offers LGBTQ+-affirming and neurodiversity-affirming care for adults, couples, and parents. Her approach draws from attachment theory, psychodynamic therapy, Internal Family Systems, mindfulness, and spiritual psychology.


Support for adults seeking deeper self-understanding, self-acceptance, practical skills, or more useful accommodations.

Support for people living with bereavement, relationship loss, fertility-related grief, altered expectations, or other significant losses.

Therapy, groups, and professional education that respect LGBTQ+ lives, relationships, families, and communities.

Support for couples, parents, and families navigating communication, repair, forgiveness, or changing needs.

Support for career decisions, professional development, workplace needs, and creating a working life that fits.
Learn about Danielle’s specialized work addressing grief experiences connected to late recognition, missed support, masking, burnout, or a changed understanding of the past.
Begin with three gentle strategies for developing greater clarity, self-understanding, and self-trust.
Explore support for parents who want to better understand and affirm a neurodivergent teen or adult child.

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