About Me

Dr. Danielle Dorn is a licensed clinical psychologist with advanced training in a wide range of evidence-based treatments and therapies. Her graduate clinical training started in the Department of Psychiatry in the Perelman School of Medicine and the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA). There she trained and saw patients in the Penn Anxiety Program, Center for Cognitive Therapy, and Penn Adult ADHD Treatment and Research Program. Dr. Dorn also worked at the Aaron T. Beck Psychopathology Research Center (Penn Medicine) with some of the original architects of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Additionally, she has received advanced training in CBT from the Beck Institute.

Dr. Dorn completed her clinical psychology internship and post-doctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Nashville, TN). During her internship, she conducted inpatient and outpatient individual and group therapies using CBT, Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). In addition, she received concentrated training at Vanderbilt’s Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, where she focused on integrating mind-body medicine into her clinical practice. During her fellowship, Dr. Dorn received specialized training in motivational interviewing, helping empower people to find their own meaning and capacity for change.

Following fellowship, Dr. Dorn worked in the Anxiety Center at the Evidence Based Treatment Centers of Seattle for three and a half years.

Dr. Dorn is passionate about continuing education and post-graduate learning. She is a graduate from the Trichotillomania Learning Center’s Professional Training Institute, where she received intensive training in treating body focused repetitive behaviors (skin-picking and hair-pulling disorders). She is also a graduate of the Behavioral Therapy Training Institute, where she received specialty training in treating OCD using Exposure Response Prevention. Dr. Dorn is a clinical instructor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine, providing consultation and instruction to psychiatry medical residents.

Dr. Dorn is a graduate of Washington State University (B.A.), University of Pennsylvania (M.S.), and received her doctorate in clinical psychology at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.