Peter Danzig

Peter Andrew Danzig (they/them) LCSW, MSS, MA, CCPT, CPT is a Culture Change-maker, Senior Leadership Strategist, Psychotherapist, Play and Toy analyst, and Inclusion and Belonging Professional. In 2025, The Philadelphia Business Journal named one of Philadelphia’s 10 Visionary LGBTQ+ Leaders. When not working within larger systems to elicit cultural change and impact, Peter consistently finds ways to integrate their lived experience into further social justice work. Peter’s research and practice interests are invested in community mental health, theories on adult play and the ways it frames our social interactions, and trauma informed work with clients and artists/creatives. Peter’s research and Op-Eds have been featured in the Psychology Today, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Philadelphia Gay News, The Mighty, and others. Peter has experience in strategy, senior leadership development and administration providing case management and consulting in a variety of settings including hospitals, higher education, corporate organizations and non-profits. In 2014, Peter founded Theatrical Trainer, a non-profit research collective dedicated to social service and wellness for artists across the country.

Additionally, Peter is amongst one of the first APA approval modality cohorts of therapists researching and normalizing geek culture, “nerdom,” and affirming care that integrates pop culture and community healing. Peter has researched and presented nationally on the play on neurology throughout their lifespan and in the workplace.

When not public speaking on the Queer experience, they can be found watching Sailor Moon, enjoying homemade CubanX food, 90’s kitchen dance parties with their French Bulldogs, or learning humility in the human experience through their interactions with anyone willing to enjoy coffee, or tea, and vulnerability.