About Us

Dragonheart grew from a shared belief that healing, growth, and human connection rarely fit neatly into a single box.

People are complex. We carry our experiences in our thoughts, relationships, bodies, habits, nervous systems, and the ways we interact with the world around us. Meaningful personal growth therefore sometimes requires more than sitting in a room and talking about what happened.

Our work brings together two very different backgrounds and perspectives with a common purpose: creating experiences that help people better understand themselves, develop practical skills, reconnect with their own agency, and build healthier relationships with themselves and others.

Our approach may incorporate horses, experiential learning, mindfulness and somatic awareness, communication and relationship education, Tai Chi and martial principles, hypnosis and guided imagery, energy-oriented wellness practices, therapeutic touch, and other personal-development tools.

We are particularly passionate about creating spaces where people do not have to perform wellness, disclose their entire history, or surrender control in order to participate.

At the center of everything we do are a few simple principles: consent matters, autonomy matters, connection matters, and people deserve to be active participants in their own growth.

Dianna Williams

Founder | Equine & Experiential Wellness | Trauma-Informed Program Development

Dianna brings together a lifelong relationship with horses and animals, personal and professional experience advocating for survivors of trauma and abuse, creative problem-solving, and a deep interest in the ways safety, autonomy, connection, and the nervous system influence human behavior.

Her work centers on developing experiential programs that give people opportunities to practice concepts rather than simply talk about them. Horses are an important part of that work because they provide immediate, honest feedback around pressure, boundaries, regulation, communication, trust, and connection without judgment or expectation.

Dianna’s approach is strongly rooted in participant autonomy. She is particularly interested in helping people recognize their own internal signals, rebuild trust in themselves, establish and communicate boundaries, explore patterns without shame, and discover what safety and connection mean for them personally.

Her work includes equine-assisted experiences, trauma-informed program development, somatic and sensory awareness, consent and boundary education, relationship and communication skills, wellness-focused touch and AromaTouch-based experiences, and creative experiential learning.

As an author, artist, photographer, horsewoman, and program developer, Dianna brings storytelling and creativity into her work. She believes personal growth does not always have to look clinical. Sometimes powerful lessons happen while standing beside a horse, creating something, moving the body, learning a new skill, or experiencing a safe interaction differently than you have before.

Paul Bothwell

Personal Development & Wellness Practitioner | Tai Chi | Hypnosis | Energy Work

Paul brings an interdisciplinary background spanning psychology and human services, martial arts, Tai Chi, hypnosis, communication, human behavior, and energy-oriented wellness practices.

His martial arts background includes black belts in Taekwondo and Kempo Karate, additional study across other systems, and ongoing study of combat-oriented Tai Chi. His Tai Chi work includes training in Push Hands, a partner practice that provides a unique way to explore balance, pressure, grounding, responsiveness, awareness, and the relationship between force and resistance.

Paul also has training in hypnosis and hypnotherapy techniques, hypnotic regression, conversational hypnosis, NLP, advanced social dynamics, and approaches focused on recognizing coercive or predatory interpersonal behavior. His wellness training includes Reiki and Fa Kung/Medical Qigong-informed energy work, vibrational practices, and other spiritually oriented approaches to personal wellness.

Academically, Paul holds associate degrees in Psychology and Human Services and has completed additional training in areas including suicide-prevention awareness and intervention.

A common thread throughout his work is curiosity about how people function: how attention influences experience, how communication shapes interaction, how the body responds to pressure, and how greater awareness can create more choices in the way we respond.

Rather than prescribing a particular path, Paul’s work emphasizes exploration, skill development, awareness, and helping participants discover approaches that are useful to them.

Two Perspectives. One Philosophy.

Dianna and Paul approach the work from different directions, and that is intentional.

Dianna’s work tends to begin with communication, awareness, pressure, lived experience, autonomy, creativity, and connection. Paul’s often begins with safety, boundaries, movement, body awareness, meditation, and grounding. 

Where those perspectives meet is the heart of Dragonheart.

The goal isn't to tell people who they should become. It is to create a safe enough space, offer useful tools and experiences, and give people room to discover that for themselves.