Danielle Levanas, MA, LCAT, RDT/BCT is a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist and Registered Drama Therapist/Board Certified Trainer. She holds a Master’s degree in drama therapy from NYU’s Steinhardt School and has worked in clinical settings focusing on the treatment of anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, chronic stress, and trauma. Her master’s thesis explored embodied play and vicarious trauma with incarcerated male patients at Bellevue Forensic Psychiatric Hospital.

Danielle has worked as a lead teaching artist with Opening Act NYC and was a member of the Big Apple Playback Theatre Company for eight years. She holds advanced certification from the International Trauma Studies Program, specializing in recovery through playmaking for refugee youth in Ghana and Liberia. Danielle spent nearly a decade assisting Elizabeth Swados, performing and producing experimental theater at venues including La MaMa, Joe’s Pub, the Culture Project, and the Flea Theatre. Her educational background also includes a BFA in Acting from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, with a minor in Applied Theatre.

Currently, she runs a private practice for individuals and couples, seeing clients virtually all over the world or in-person in Los Angeles. Her work centers around systems theory, vicarious trauma, embodied play, and relational healing, helping clients explore and heal through creative, narrative, and integrative methods.