Danielle Kaplan (she/her) is a Licensed Clinical Social Work Supervisor (LCSW-S).
Originally from El Paso, TX, she calls herself a “Double Longhorn,” having earned a BA in Psychology and an MS in Social Work, both from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining Mindfully Texas, she was the owner of Keep Austin Centered, her private practice, where she specialized in Dialectical Behavior Therapy and the older adult population. She completed Dialectical Behavior Therapy Intensive Training in 2014 and has since been trained in Radically Open DBT, Prolonged Exposure for DBT Clients, Gottman Couples’ Therapy Levels 1 & 2, Intuitive Eating, and various relational modalities. She has worked with adolescents, adults, couples, and families; she’s worked with people in their teens all the way up to people in their 80s.
While Danielle feels that her clinical skills truly began developing behind the customer service desk at Whole Foods and as a project manager in the nursery/commercial landscaping industry, her official Social work career began at Jewish Family Service of Austin, where she coordinated outreach and volunteer programs for older adults and later served as a therapy clinician. She worked in case management with clients from around the globe while interning at Refugee Services of Texas. She went on to intern and later work at Seton Behavioral Health’s Intensive Outpatient Program, where she worked with clients at different levels of care across a variety of modalities, but specialized in DBT treatment and skills training with clients immediately following discharge from inpatient psychiatric hospitalization. She has been a guest lecturer at the UT School of Social Work Graduate Program, as well as with various therapy organizations and even private businesses around Austin. She has been in Austin since 2000 and lives with her spouse, children, two cats, and an almost-toothless Chihuahua mix.
