About Dana

Hi! I’m Dana Kouchel of Walking Between Worlds. I’m an energy worker, intuitive medium, plant spirit communicator, writer, and artist.

I have spent many years studying how energy works, talking to spirits and plants, learning to trust my intuition, integrating my trauma, spending time with the sick and dying, and traveling through various realms. All of these explorations unfold into this work, and what I have to offer. I feel deeply like a soul on an incredible, holy journey, and a human, trying to make my way through the messiness of life on earth. My handle is Walking Between Worlds because that’s exactly what I do – whether across the gender binary, the world of the living and dead, or between allopathic and holistic healing practices.

The whole ‘love and light,’ ‘good vibes only’ spirituality doesn’t work for me. I feel that our shadows are sacred and meant to be welcomed and integrated into the whole, rather than ignored. In our sessions, we’ll touch on heavy things, but hold them softly, with lots of lightness.

I believe that you are your own healer. As humans, our relationship to spiritual practices, gifts, and connection with the earth is in deep need of repair. I hope to show people how to reclaim these innate gifts and practices to help us be more of ourselves. I think as a collective, it’s the only way that we can get well and get free.

When I’m not doing spiritual work, I’m working as a nurse practitioner. My specialty background is geriatrics. I am passionate about promoting autonomy as people age and talking to people about death before it knocks on their door so that death may be approached as an old friend rather than something to avoid or be afraid of.

I also enjoy spending time with loved ones and my cats, writing, cooking, reading, listening to music, making all kinds of things with my hands, creating art, gardening, guiding and practicing yoga, and spending time in the woods. I am based out of unceded Lumbee, Cheraw, Catawba, Occaneechi, and Shakori land, also known as Durham, NC.

I hope you feel inspired to take what works for you here and to leave the rest. May we feel less alone, more connected, and more rooted as we do this deep and meaningful work together.

  • Healing another is not possible. This world also says a farmer grows things. A farmer grows nothing. Things grow themselves. The farmer helps create the vital conditions necessary for growing. In the same way, a healer is not one who heals, but one who helps create the conditions for healing. Only the afflicted may heal themselves.

    Jaiya John, from “All These Rivers and You Chose Love”