DaRa Williams is a trainer, meditation teacher, and wellness coach. She has been a clinician and administrator in the field of mental health for over twenty-five years. Williams currently maintains a private practice in Manhattan. She is a certified complex trauma focusing-oriented therapist and a practitioner of natural force healing, a vibrational energetic healing system. She has been a meditator for the past twenty years and is a practitioner of both vipassana and ascension meditation. She is a member of the board of directors for the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, a graduate of the Community Dharma Leaders Program, and participated in the IMS/Spirit Rock Teacher Training program with Jack Kornfield.