Strides with DDD - Dania Dbaibo Darwish

Strides with DDD - Dania Dbaibo Darwish STRIDES with Dania Dbaibo Darwish is the hub of self development through Coaching (Life, Career, & R "STRIDES" is founded to effect “positive change”.

It offers 4 distinct services for clients interested in self-development: Coaching (Life, Career, & Relationship), Counseling (CBT, EMDR, &, Hypnotherapy), Laughter Yoga & Training. If you want to move your life forward, be more fulfilled, and are ready take some action steps, then here’s the place to start. You can use any of these services depending on where you are in your life journey.

- Coac

hing is for those of you who are functioning just well, but are eager to live at optimal levels of satisfaction on either personal or professional levels. Coaching can bring you closer to your aspirations by supporting you clarify where you are now, what you need to do, and prioritizing the action steps to implement. Your personal coach will hold you accountable for your word, will empower and motivate you to take action, and will remind you to celebrate all your achievements.

- Counseling /psychotherapy is for those of you who are either finding it difficult to cope well with life demands, or feel trapped in dysfunctional behavioral, emotional, or thought processes. Counseling offers you a chance to explore your deepest emotions and the roots underlying your behavior. You will find that you can turn things round to your advantage; and your ability to move forward will be greatly enhanced. I adopt the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy approach (CBT), Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) & Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR) approach that specifically deals with traumas and main life disappointments. I also, can offer Hypnotherapy for those of you who want to deal with maladaptive habitual processes be it in thought or in behavior. It offers you a journey into your unconscious mind to install a new program of “being”. You can target resolving many issues ranging from phobias, to stress management, to ego-strengthening, to insomnia, and many more. Hypnotherapy speeds up change dramatically and in just a session or two.

- Training is conducted in a motivational speaking group setting and is aimed at those who are interested in self-development be it on personal or professional levels. Workshops cover different topics to equip attendees with better life-skills ranging from stress management, to parental coaching, to effective communication, to self-motivation and many more. These different services are provided by Dania Dbaibo Darwish -a credentialed & qualified well-trained professional who is passionate about effecting positive change. Furthermore, you can always trust that any one-on-one process takes place in a secure setting where confidentiality and abidance by the ethical code of conduct are ensured throughout the process. Dania has a BBA an MA in Psychology from AUB. She is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credentialed by the International Coach Federation. She's, also, a licensed Clinical Psychologist trained by the American University of Beirut Medical Center, a certified EMDR therapist by EMDRIA, a certified Hypnotherapist by the National Guild of Hypnotists, a Master level NLP practitioner by the INPLATA, Positive Psychology Certified Coach, & a Certified Relationship & Couple Coach. Dania, also serves as a Mentor Coach & as an EMDR accredited consultant. For the past decade, she has appeared as a weekly guest speaker in B-Live program on LBC SAT & Al Jadeed TV & other local TV channels. Dania is the founding president of the Lebanese Coach Association and is very involved with other NGOs.

28/07/2026

Did you know you have great powers in your mind? One of these is the power of your imagination. Some people use it to create nightmares; others use it to create dreams. How are you using that power?

We used to import EMDR protocols from abroad & apply these here in Lebanon. It’s time we devise EMDR protocols here in L...
10/07/2026

We used to import EMDR protocols from abroad & apply these here in Lebanon. It’s time we devise EMDR protocols here in Lebanon & perhaps export them later on ☺️ It was a blast indeed to EMPOWER the EMDR Task Force Team through testing a new EMDR Resourcing Protocol I devised recently. I call it the Group Empowerment Protocol (GEP); & it combines different strategies that enable participants to dig into their strengths. The strategies involved some Ego States work, light hypnosis, emotional regulation, positive psychology, & others. The feedback was indeed positive🎉🎉 & the team provided me with valuable feedback on how to improve it still. I can’t wait to test it further through research, so that other psychologists get to apply it too. I thank my colleagues at the EMDR Task Force for allowing me the opportunity to do this two sided beneficial pilot test ❤️❤️ you guys ROCK 🎉🎉🎉

03/07/2026

Why is hope important for Mental Health?

20/06/2026

We have no choice but to keep going, strengthen ourselves, and support one another so that we continue to have hope and meaning under our most difficult circumstances.
As part of the Emergency Response Unit (ERU) activities, the EMDR Task Force team continues to support and enhance the resources of frontline volunteering psychologists. For the sixth time, today’s stop was in Sidon, where our colleague, Darine Saleh, graciously hosted us at NouNaiDa center. ❤️
The support session was facilitated by colleagues Dr. Charlotte Al-Khalil, Marlene Maroun, and Dr. Georges Abou Merhi (and of course myself).
Big thanks to everyone who contributes to the continuity of these professionals and to humanitarian spaces. Hopfully, we will always maintain this drive and the same spirit of cooperation. ❤️

Hats off to companies that prioritize the mental health of their teams ❤️ Tomorrow, I’ll be delivering a webinar for the...
17/06/2026

Hats off to companies that prioritize the mental health of their teams ❤️ Tomorrow, I’ll be delivering a webinar for the “Sanofi” team to address our mental well-being and strategies for emotional toughness in the midst of collective ongoing trauma 🥰
Trauma & its aftermaths are nothing to be ashamed of. Whatever we go through is a normal reaction to abnormal events😔

I don’t think there is anyone who hasn’t gone through stressful life experiences, which only accumulate with age. Ultima...
14/06/2026

I don’t think there is anyone who hasn’t gone through stressful life experiences, which only accumulate with age. Ultimately, it is both our good & bad experiences that shape & impact who we are.
When someone seeks my support in being overwhelmed & struggling with a psychological problem, I always ask: What happened to you? Problems rarely arise out of nowhere! And truly, when we review the traumatic & difficult experiences that person has gone through, we discover that these experiences haven’t actually been processed. They become the baggage that person carries with pain, like a heavy meal causing chronic indigestion. The difference is that the brain cannot digest psychological issues on its own; it requires intervention through EMDR.
Problems like depression, anxiety, phobias, addiction, panic attacks, and so on... underneath these all lie big & small traumas acting like an active allergy that just won’t settle down. EMDR doesn’t just desensitize the person to these experiences; it guides them toward a completely different, positive way of thinking about themselves & about what happened. This is how those bad experiences finally get “digested,” & both the psychological & physical symptoms disappear.
Now, whenever I encounter someone in psychological pain, & once we know which experiences caused the presenting problems, my immediate thought would be: Let’s EMDR this s**t!


13/06/2026

هل الحديث عن مخاوفنا يجعلنا أضعف؟
على العكس تمامًا. فالتعبير عن المشاعر والتحدّث عن المخاوف يساعدان على تخفيف حدّتها ويمنعان تراكم الضغط النفسي في الداخل.

في هذا الفيديو من فقرة «تعو نحكي»، تشرح المعالجة النفسية دانيا دبيبو درويش أهمية التنفيس العاطفي، ولماذا قد يتحوّل كبت المشاعر إلى ضغوط نفسية وجسدية تؤثر على صحتنا وحياتنا اليومية.

التعبير عن الخوف ليس ضعفًا... بل خطوة نحو التوازن النفسي والقوة الحقيقية.

التعبير_عن_المشاعر إدارة_القلق التوتر الأمراض_النفسية_الجسدية الوعي_النفسي

I wasn’t sure I was going to, but managed to travel to Oslo to attend the   Europe Conference 2026 to stay updated with ...
09/06/2026

I wasn’t sure I was going to, but managed to travel to Oslo to attend the Europe Conference 2026 to stay updated with the latest in the field. It was a good chance to take a break, rejuvenate, & explore the city & culture of Oslo. This trip gave me more confidence in the magical healing EMDR provides for people with unprocessed stressful life events. The trip also was a good chance to increase my frustration tolerance in handling the war on Lebanon & connecting with fellow international EMDR colleagues ❤️


بعدو فريق ال EMDR للطواريء شادد الهمّه!! اليوم كمان قدّمنا الدّعم بتعزيز الموارد للنّفسانيين المتطوعين للتدخّل النّفسي ف...
16/05/2026

بعدو فريق ال EMDR للطواريء شادد الهمّه!! اليوم كمان قدّمنا الدّعم بتعزيز الموارد للنّفسانيين المتطوعين للتدخّل النّفسي في الأزمة الحاليّة. استعملنا پروتوكول GREP (Group Resource Enhancement (Protocol في منطقتي طرابلس (لمجموعه جديده) وصيدا والنّتائج جداً إيجابيّة الأسبوع الفائت واليوم. لازلنا نؤمن أنّ دعم الداعِم أولويّة❤️
The EMDR Task Force is still going strong! Today we provided further support by enhancing the resources of volunteering psychologists providing psychological interventions during the current crisis. We used the GREP (Group Resource Enhancement Protocol) in Tripoli (for a new group) and Sidon, and the results have been very positive both last week and today. We still believe that supporting the supporter is a priority ❤️

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Blue Bldg. , Abdel Aziz Street
Hamra

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Monday 10:00 - 19:00
Tuesday 10:00 - 19:00
Wednesday 10:00 - 19:00
Thursday 10:00 - 19:00
Friday 10:00 - 19:00

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