transforming mental health
Saying the things the mental health field won’t say out loud.
For neurodivergent people and the clinicians who work with them: trainings, a workbook, and a point of view that names what most of the field won’t.
LATEST WORK
Beyond Diagnosis
A workbook for neurodivergent people who were never invited to question the frameworks built around them. For people who’ve been handed a diagnosis and told that’s the answer.
LATEST WORK
Three ways to work together.
The workbook is for individuals. The trainings are for the clinicians who work with them. Speaking is for the rooms that want both groups in the same conversation.
Beyond Diagnosis
A workbook for neurodivergent people making sense of the frameworks that were built around them — and never quite fit.
Six Sessions for Clinicians
A framework for rethinking how you diagnose, treat, and relate to neurodivergent clients. For practitioners who already know the standard curriculum wasn’t enough.
Keynotes and Workshops
Therapy training programs. Clinical conferences. Academic departments.
Talks that are dense, direct, and built to shift how clinicians think. The goal is changed practice, not a good feeling that fades by Thursday.
ABOUT DANNA
A clinician who names it.
DSW. Licensed clinical social worker. More than twenty years in practice. Director of Walnut Therapy Collective, where the waitlist has reached 300. Teaching at Bryn Mawr, Penn, and Rockford for seven years.
Her work sits at the intersection of neurodivergence, queerness, and the mental health industrial complex, deconstructing the frameworks that shape clinical practice and harm the people they claim to serve.
The one thing she wants people to feel when they engage with her work: understood.
“I am writing simply to say how wholeheartedly happy I was to have found your training and to have been a part of the experience. It left me feeling excited in ways I long for as a clinician. Thank you for your presentation and your candidness. It was refreshing to have what felt like a genuinely real dialogue.”
VH
That was hands down the best talk I’ve ever been to. I would take any class you taught. I felt so seen.
That event resonated with me more than my entire two years of social work school.
Today I realized how much of an impact you have had on my practice and how I interact with my clients.
KIND WORDS
TRAININGS AVAILABLE
Six trainings for clinicians who already know something's missing.
Each training is a standalone recorded session for therapists, graduate students, and mental health professionals. Instant digital download with transcript. No CE credits currently offered.
01
Working and Thinking Across the Spectrum
A neurodiversity-affirming framework for autism & ADHD. Rather than asking how to “treat” neurodivergence, this training asks: what if the environment is the problem? What if masking is the injury?
02
Substance Use and Abuse: A Relational Framework
Addiction not as a moral failure or diagnostic category, but as a survival strategy rooted in trauma, secrecy, and affect regulation. A conversation between Dr. Danna and colleague Lucy Roth, both sober clinicians.
03
Assessing for Suicidality: A Relational and Affirming Framework
Suicide not as a clinical emergency to be managed, but as a human experience to be understood — and brought out of the silence where it does its most dangerous work.
04
Therapy 101: What Are We Doing and What Makes This Therapy?
What actually makes a conversation therapy? Built around the premise that technique without relationship is empty — direct, case-grounded, and honest about what clinicians rarely name out loud.
05
Therapy 202: What’s Really Going On Here?
Case conceptualization as a living, relational process — not a document you complete. Built around an honest premise: your case conceptualization is probably a little bit wrong, and that’s exactly how it should be.
06
Unmasking and Rethinking the Frame with Neurodiversity
The therapeutic frame was built for neurotypical people — and that’s a problem worth taking seriously. Inviting unmasking isn’t a technique. It’s the whole thing.
$49.99 each — or get the full bundle for $249.
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Keynotes and workshops for therapy training programs, clinical conferences, academic departments, and mental health organizations.
