A Therapist-Led Growth Circle for Black Women.
BEGINNING SEPT 16, 2026
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Healing doesn’t have to happen alone.
There are seasons in life when you’ve been holding everyone else together—your family, your career, your community, your friendships—while quietly wondering who’s holding you.
Lift As We Climb was created for Black women who are ready to invest in themselves with the same intention they’ve poured into everyone around them.
This is more than a support group. It’s a therapist-led community designed to help you reconnect with yourself, strengthen your relationships, and build a life that reflects your values, purpose, and well-being.
Whether you’re navigating burnout, career transitions, relationship challenges, motherhood, identity shifts, or simply longing for deeper connection, you’ll find a community of women committed to healing, growing, and rising together.
Join us in our NEW OFFICE LOCATION in the heart of Seattle’s vibrant medical community on First Hill.
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What We’ll Explore
Each cohort is thoughtfully designed around topics that support the emotional, relational, and professional realities of Black women.
Topics in each session are focused around these themes:
Reconnect
Who am I?
Restore
What does my nervous system need?
Relate
How do I show up in relationships?
Rise
What am I creating next?
Guest speakers and wellness professionals will join us throughout the cohort to provide practical tools, inspiration, and fresh perspectives.
Experience Designed For Women Who…
- Are constantly caring for others and rarely prioritize themselves.
- Feel successful on the outside but exhausted on the inside.
- Want deeper, healthier relationships.
- Desire authentic community with other Black women.
- Are committed to personal growth and emotional wellness.
- Want practical tools—not just encouragement—to create lasting change.
Growth Circle Facilitator
Danielle Jenkins Henry, LMFTA
Danielle Jenkins Henry, LMFT is the founder of Dream Life Out Loud and facilitator of Lift As We Climb. A licensed relationship therapist, executive coach, and former Microsoft leader, Danielle creates spaces where Black women can show up fully—without pretending to have it all together.
Her style is warm, relatable, and refreshingly down-to-earth, blending evidence-informed guidance with humor, compassion, and the gentle accountability that helps people move from surviving to truly thriving. Expect meaningful conversations, a few tears, plenty of laughter, and a community that reminds you that you don’t have to carry it all alone.
Click here to learn more about Danielle.
Investment & Payment Options
We believe meaningful healing should be both transformative and accessible. Lift As We Climb™ is intentionally designed as a high-touch therapeutic experience while remaining more affordable than the equivalent cost of eight individual therapy sessions.
Standard Investment: $895 per participant
(flexible payment plans available)
Your registration includes:
Eight 75-minute therapist-led group sessions
A beautifully designed custom spiral-bound Lift As We Climb™ workbook to guide your learning, reflection, and growth throughout the program
Evidence-informed psychoeducation, discussion, and experiential exercises
Guided journaling and between-session reflection prompts
Curated resources and recommended readings
A small-group experience intentionally limited to foster meaningful connection
Light refreshments during in-person sessions
A closing celebration honoring each participant’s journey
Community Access
Healing should not be reserved only for those who can easily afford it. Each cohort includes a limited number of Community Access Scholarships made possible through Dream Life Out Loud and community supporters.
If cost is the primary barrier preventing you from participating, we encourage you to indicate your interest during the application process. Scholarship availability is limited and awarded based on need and available funding.
Employer Sponsorship
Many employers offer wellness, leadership development, professional development, or employee resource group (ERG) funding that may be used toward programs like Lift As We Climb™. If your organization offers educational or wellness reimbursement, we’re happy to provide documentation or an invoice to support your request.
Because every cohort is intentionally small, registration is offered on a first-accepted, first-enrolled basis. We encourage interested participants to apply early to reserve their place.
Fall 2026 Cohort Schedule
Wednesdays | 6:30–7:45 PM
Join us for eight therapist-led sessions held every other Wednesday beginning September 16, 2026.
Session Dates:
September 16
September 30
October 14
October 28
November 11
December 2 (skips week of Thanksgiving Holiday)
December 16
January 6 (closing ceremony)
Your Lift As We Climb™ Workbook
Each participant receives a beautifully designed, custom spiral-bound Lift As We Climb Workbook, created exclusively for this experience. More than a workbook, it’s a personal companion for your journey—filled with guided reflections, evidence-informed tools, journaling prompts, exercises, and space to capture insights throughout the 8-session cohort, spanning 5 months. You’ll leave with a lasting resource you can revisit long after the group has ended.
This bi-weekly format provides time between sessions to reflect, practice new skills, and integrate what you’re learning into your everyday life while remaining connected to the group throughout the fall.
Growth Circle Application
Thank you for your interest in Lift As We Climb™. This small-group experience is intentionally designed to foster meaningful connection, reflection, and personal growth among Black women. Because space is limited, we ask each prospective participant to complete this application so we can thoughtfully curate each cohort.
OUR NEW OFFICE LOCATION
A Space to Pause, Connect, and Grow
Lift As We Climb is held in a thoughtfully designed gathering space in Seattle’s First Hill neighborhood at 600 Broadway, Suite 130. Conveniently located near downtown while intentionally removed from its pace, our location provides a comfortable setting for meaningful conversation, reflection, and connection with other women.
Easy Parking
Secure underground parking is available in the building for a convenient arrival.
Easy Transit
Just minutes from the Capitol Hill Link Light Rail Station and served by several nearby Metro bus routes.
Accessible to All
Our meeting space is ADA accessible and includes elevator access, accessible facilities, and a welcoming environment designed to support every participant.
Past Guests & Speakers
Lydia Nichols, BSN, RN is a pediatric registered nurse turned yoga instructor who transitioned from bedside nursing due to the physical challenges of a rigorous and highly demanding role. As a certified trauma informed yoga instructor, Coach Lydia works with youth offering mindfulness through movement. Gently spiritual in her approach, she provides a physical workout that students of all levels can easily modify. Coach Lydia’s emphasis on paying attention and her insistence on everyone respecting their own uniqueness encourages them to love and celebrate who they are. She believes it is this love of their own unique perfection that creates true change in her students so they can connect with more grace to themselves, to others and to the world.
Zue Sawtell is an award winning hair stylist who, for over a decade, has made it her business to make individuals feel beautiful. It has been her passion to explore the interconnectivity of beauty and wellness. She is driven to continue to educate herself and others on healthier products and practices so we can not only look our best, but also nurture the best image of self. She currently practices out of her salon DEFINED Salon, located in Seattle.
Born and raised in Seattle, WA, George-Jean has always had a “Passion for Fashion.” Her love for shoes, bright colors and clothes has always played a huge role in her life. Her goal as a stylist is to provide individual clients with elite fashion services that fit their budgets and empower their lives with confidence. Fitted is a brand that has future plans of expanding in the fashion world. Fitted is intended to help you STAND OUT! George-Jean prides herself with having an eye to uniquely color combine, having integrity, and her ability to connect with people.
Erika Cherry, LMHC is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with over 15 years experience working with individuals, groups, couples and families. In her private practice, Awaken Therapeutic Services, PLLC, Erika infuses trauma-informed mindful awareness with an intersectional approach to treatment that highlights the complex, and often overlapping, cultural, familial, societal and historical factors that contribute to a person’s identity and perspective.
Her experiences with group dynamics in healthcare and community settings fuels Erika’s commitment to raising awareness to the need for intentional collective healing in spaces where collective trauma is being perpetuated.