Director of Psychological Services
Licensed School Psychologist
Ms. Danner has specialized training in school-related assessment and educational intervention for children 2-16 years old. She has worked in an array of public and private school systems servicing preschool, elementary, middle, and high school students; however, specializes in working with preschool and elementary grade level children. Ms. Danner takes pride in conducting comprehensive neurodevelopmental and psychoeducational evaluations for giftedness, specific learning disabilities, autism (including the ADOS-2), Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), behavioral disorders (such as Oppositional Defiant Disorder), and mood disorders including anxiety, depression, and bipolar. Ms. Danner also regularly conducts school/classroom observations and works with both parents and teachers as a behavior interventionist, offering guidance and strategies to help meet the needs of the whole child.
In therapy, she specializes in working with children who struggle with behavioral and/or emotional dysregulation and underdeveloped social skills through a variety of techniques including Play Therapy and ABA methodology. Ms. Danner also offers Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for adolescents struggling with self-harm. In addition, she runs teen groups for Executive Functioning skills (mindfulness, organization, goal setting, self-esteem, self-discipline, etc.)
Ms. Danner was born and raised in Westchester County, New York. She completed her undergraduate degree from Salisbury University in Maryland, receiving a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology with a track in Childhood Development. She worked as a preschool teacher before obtaining her graduate degrees from Marshall University, which included a Masters of Arts (MA) in Elementary Education and an Education Specialist Degree (EdS) in School Psychology. Ms. Danner is actively pursuing her doctoral degree. For ten years, she was employed as a school psychologist in New York and Connecticut and remains an active member of the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP).