Dr. Danielle Romanick is a DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™, Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Trauma Team Lead at Chicago DBT Institute®. She is also the Director of Clinical and Community Education at CDBTI, orchestrating community workshops and classes, training and education for staff and trainees, as well as APA Continuing Education opportunities for Clinicians. She earned her masters and doctoral degrees in Clinical Psychology from Midwestern University. Dr. Romanick completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Chicago DBT Institute and her pre-doctoral internship at the Chalmers P. Wylie Veterans Affairs Ambulatory Care Center, on the PTSD Clinical Team as well as the Integrated Dual Diagnosis (co-occurring mental health and substance use) Treatment and Psychosocial Rehabilitation teams.

Dr. Romanick has experience working collaboratively with adolescents and adults across outpatient and inpatient hospital, community mental health, and specialized settings. She has provided care in correctional institutions, day programs for individuals with intellectual disabilities and severe mental illness, as well as inpatient and residential long term care facilities. She has worked with individuals struggling with a complex and wide range of emotional, behavioral, characterological, substance use, and adjustment problems. Dr. Romanick specializes in working with individuals who have a history of severe emotional dysregulation, marked interpersonal difficulties, impulsive behaviors, trauma, substance use or LGBTQIA issues.

Dr. Romanick has received foundational and advanced training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) through Behavioral Tech, as well as Advanced training in DBT-PE for PTSD by the treatment’s developer, Melanie Harned, PhD. She has additional training and experience in therapies including Prolonged Exposure (PE), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO-DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Functional-Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP), and Motivational Interviewing (MI). Dr. Romanick divides her time between clinical practice, teaching, and community outreach. She has been a guest lecturer and has provided workshops for graduate level psychology students on a variety of topics.

In her free time, Dr. Romanick serves on the board of Felix Foundation, a non-profit organization working towards connecting those who experience mental health difficulties with services and housing opportunities in the Chicagoland community. She additionally enjoys reading, painting, playing the piano or ukulele, movies, and spending time with her loved ones. Dr. Romanick is passionate about providing genuine care with compassion and a sense of humor, assisting individuals to fully realize their potential to live their lives in the most meaningful way possible.