Deanna (Dani) Minsky, LCSW

Deanna (Dani) Minsky is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Maine with nine years of experience supporting people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and depression. She draws on years working directly in school settings across Maine and Massachusetts, providing clinical social work within family systems and offering guidance to parents, caregivers, guardians, and school staff. Her background includes helping teachers and outside providers manage compassion fatigue, set boundaries, and adapt approaches to meet diverse needs.

Deanna has specific training in Trauma Systems Therapy, an approach that attends both to an individualâs emotional needs and to the social environments that shape daily life. She favors a holistic view that highlights protective factors and identifies areas for strengthening so treatment can be tailored to the whole person. In practice she integrates attachment-focused perspectives and evidence-informed techniques to address relationship patterns, abandonment concerns, and post-traumatic stress.

Her therapeutic stance centers on respect for each personâs expertise in their own story and on building a trusting, nonjudgmental space. Deanna welcomes people who are new to therapy as well as those returning to care, and she collaborates with clients to identify strategies that fit their lives and goals.