Danna Bodenheimer (she/her) will give the plenary address during the 2026 Deepening Clinical Practice Conference. The annual conference brings together practitioners and scholars to share knowledge and research about current issues in clinical practice. This year the conference will be held on July 31, 2026 on the Smith College campus.
Bodenheimer is founder and director of the Walnut Psychotherapy Center in Philadelphia, PA. She has worked in the field of mental health for over 15 years. Her expertise is most centered around working with the LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent population. Bodenheimer takes different, cutting-edge approaches to thinking about and treating individual and organizational trauma. She has also long studied the impacts of dual marginalization on the psyches of individuals in treatment and in the workplace.
Bodenheimer received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Smith College, her post-baccalaureate degree from Columbia University and her doctorate in Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught at Temple University, Rutgers University, Bryn Mawr College and Penn. She can easily discuss complex issues of life along the gender spectrum, neurodivergence, racial dynamics in the workplace and interpersonally, and the lifelong impact that trauma has on overall human functionality. She also authored two books on how to practice in the field of psychotherapy and has mentored hundreds of developing clinicians has they have grown their own practices.
More information about Bodenheimer's presentation will be available in early March.
