danny weber
LCMHCA
danny weber (they/them) is a licensed mental health counselor associate. They earned a bachelor’s degree in English Literature, Peace and Conflict studies, and Gender and Sexuality studies at Swarthmore College as well as a Master’s in Counseling Psychology at Chatham University. They learned many of their healing offerings from political organizing, specifically in the realms of anti-sexual violence and police abolition work. danny has worked in residential treatment for womxn with substance-use disorders, LGBTQ+ community mental health centers, and outpatient practices.
As a person from a flyover Midwestern state, danny was a late bloomer in many of their identities—queer, transgender, abolitionist, anti-capitalist. They often found themselves in sci-fi writings that dreamed up new worlds where more of themselves could be allowed, celebrated, possible. danny’s healing journey also comes from many lived experiences with different communities who each helped them find parts of themselves that they had yet to discover alone. They learned that access to resources, ideas, and dreaming are all key parts of what helped them not only heal, but become. danny believes that our communities often have the answers we need, even if we do not know it yet. As a survivor of sexual violence, danny has also learned what it means to not feel safe in your own body and to fearfully desire re-connection. This experience informs both their justice-oriented healing approaches and embodiment foci. If this is the only body we have, how can we come back to it, work with it, even love it? danny’s neurodivergence overall grows from a deep love and commitment to learning both inside and outside the canon of therapy, including one too many special interests, constantly building metaphors/images for feelings, and critically analyzing “normative” expectations.
As a clinician, danny believes that to heal is to be well-resourced. This looks like decolonizing tools from different modalities that work with your bodymind—ranging from emotion regulation dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills to mindfulness practices in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to advocacy power-mapping. danny also enjoys depth psychologies that dive into deeper parts of ourselves to discover, create, and nourish our innate aliveness. They desire not only helping folx cope, but helping folx heal and dismantle the systems that cause crises in the first place. danny’s deeper approaches integrate internal family systems, narrative therapy, and somatics.
danny works with adults over 18 years, specializing in folx who hold expansive (non-normative) identities, folx who work in organizing and activist communities, and folx who are curious/creatives. danny also centers groupwork and enjoys therapy groups on seasonal attunement (summer and winter blues), climate grief groups, anti-gentrification groups, and transgender/neurodivergent support groups.
