DANIELLE GIGANTE
Founder & Facilitator of Resonate Therapy
Danielle's path in the healing arts began with an innate awareness of touch, energy and the way people hold experience within the body.
She is gifted with the ability to see and feel energy defining her empathic sensitivity as a modern day seer. Throughout her teenage years, she developed a fascination for ancient modalities and anthropology seeking to further understand her inherent abilities.
Training & Professional Experience
Her educational journey into body work commenced at the Australasian College of Natural Therapies where she completed Diplomas in Aromatherapy & Remedial Therapies.
Over the following years, her experience in these modalities was realised whilst managing, concocting and massaging in prominent Aromatherapy stores such as Red Earth & healing centres later working with cutting edge Chiropractors throughout Sydney enhancing her understand of the nervous and skeletal systems.
She also completed her certification of Aerobic instruction and Personal training.
She completed a certificate for Yoga instruction in 2008, which deepened her understanding of Anatomy and Physiology. To build on her existing qualifications, she went on to study other modalities such as Thought field therapy, Hot Stones massage, Pregnancy massage, Indian Head massage, Reflexology, Ki yoga, Meridians and Food as medicine.
Her fascination with the energetic bodies was supported with the spiritual wisdom of Parapsychology and energy medicine. She graduated from the Australian Academy of Parapsychology in 1998.
This right of passage reconnected her with her soul's purpose.
She has worked as a senior therapist in prominent Day Spa's throughout the northern rivers region such as Gaia & The Byron at Byron Spa. Whilst working at the Byron at Byron Spa (Crystalbrook) she co-created the unique spa menu, became a trainer of new staff members, created and facilitated a Forest Bathing experience and facilitated meditation and forest bathing experiences for various Corporate events held at the hotel.
In 2019 she immersed in Shamanic practices studying under the Q'ero shaman of the Andes in Peru.
In 2024 she became a Trauma informed Therapist qualifying through The Centre for Healing, bringing a deeper understanding of safety, nervous system regulation and trauma-aware practice to her work.
The Creation of Resonate Therapy
She created Resonate Therapy as a space to bring together the many strands of her work, bodywork, energy medicine, meditation, education and embodied practice which continues to evolve alongside her own journey as a therapist and facilitator.
Danielle's Work Today
Today, Danielle works as an experienced Massage Therapist, Energy Healer, Meditation and Sound Healing Facilitator, and facilitator of retreats, workshops, Blessing Ways and transformational experiences throughout Ballina, Byron Bay and the Northern Rivers.
Her work brings together more than three decades of experience across massage therapy, bodywork, energy medicine, meditation, breathwork, sound healing and spiritual practice. As a trauma-informed therapist, Danielle approaches each person with sensitivity, intuition and respect for their individual experience, creating a space in which the body and nervous system can soften, restore and reconnect.
Her approach integrates an understanding of both the physical and energetic bodies. Rather than working with one modality in isolation, Danielle draws intuitively from her extensive toolkit to create deeply restorative and individualised experiences, with the intention of supporting meaningful change, greater awareness and a deeper connection to self.
Danielle facilitates both one-to-one and group meditation and Crystal Bowl Sound Healing experiences, weaving together guided meditation, breath, vibration and sound to support relaxation, energetic alignment and integration.
Her Connection and Integration Programs grew from the culmination of many years of study, lived experience and practice across her different modalities. At the heart of these programs is Danielle’s passion for sharing the healing arts in a way that is grounded, accessible and experiential, supporting people to move beyond simply understanding themselves intellectually, towards a more embodied relationship with themselves.
Breathwork Medicine Journey
Danielle’s evolving work also includes her Breathwork Medicine Journey, an immersive experience bringing together breathwork, movement, yoga, ceremony and elements of her Shamanic medicine practice.
Held within a carefully facilitated, safe and supportive space, the journey invites participants to explore what may be held within the body, release stagnant or held energy, support nervous system regulation and reconnect with a greater sense of presence, freedom and inner wellbeing.
Rather than approaching transformation as something to be forced, Danielle’s work creates the conditions for each person’s experience to unfold at their own pace with space for reflection, integration and reconnection.
Mantra
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” – Rumi
