Danielle Morgan, Ph.D., Family PMHNP, APRN-BC

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Dr. Danielle Morgan is a Ph.D. prepared nurse scientist and Board-certified family psychiatric nurse practitioner with over 25 years of experience providing psychiatric assessment, medication management, and psychotherapy to children, adolescents, adults, and families in various communities throughout Connecticut. Dr. Morgan strives to engage a patient-centered, trauma-informed lens as she collaborates with families to develop treatment plans that address comprehensive behavioral health needs. Trained as a psychotherapist and psychopharmacologist at Yale University, she utilizes evidenced-based medical and non-medical treatment modalities, combined with decades of learning from listening to patient experiences, as she formulates each individualized course of treatment. 

Her research aims to identify the variables that best predict psychiatric provider well-being and resilience; with the goal of innovating supportive interventions that sustain and grow our currently depleted psychiatric provider workforce.

Dr. Morgan has been a leader in the psychiatric provider service industry since her Presidency at the Connecticut APRN Society in 2005. She has been appointed by the Department of Public Health to serve on three Scope of Practice Review committees; one leading to the passage of CT APRNs’ Independent Practice (SB 36). She currently serves as a member of CT’s Health Care Cabinet; recently co-chaired a DPH workgroup committee tasked by the legislature to respond to the state wide children’s behavioral health crisis (Senate Bill 217 – SA 24-10); and, over the last 26 years, has provided over 25 written and oral testimonies in various CT legislative committees advocating for parity in access to behavioral health care services.

Dr. Morgan enjoys active clinical practice providing services to children and adolescents who manage mood, anxiety, attention, developmental, thought disorder, and substance use challenges. Additionally, Dr. Morgan has spent the balance of her career providing behavioral health services to adult patients: she enjoys working with people with complex mood disorders, substance use disorders, co-morbid medically diagnoses (including those with pari-partum mood challenges), and developmental/life stage change challenges. She is among the group of practitioners currently developing an acumen for treating those women in the peri and post-menopause; an often-under-treated population.

  • Ph.D., Nursing Research Science, Data and Systems Science, Minor in Nursing Education, The University of Arizona

  • Masters of Science in Nursing, Yale University

  • BS in Psychology, Neuroscience, Pre-Med, Northeastern University

In addition to her local legislative work ensuring citizens’ access to behavioral healthcare, Danielle is an active volunteer in her local and international community. She has led initiatives to ensure access to Yale student nurse practitioner care after the 2018 overdoses on the New Haven green; she innovated the state’s first COVID mental health response team for providers https://www.wtnh.com/on-air/wednesdayswarrior/wednesdays-warrior-helping-healthcare-workers/ and she has been active in her Yale alumni community traveling locally and abroad providing service/cultural exchange trips with fellow alum and communities around the globe.

Danielle is an avid home cook and baker, active cyclist and walk/roamer, history buff, and engaged mom. She enjoys traveling, learning world history from all people and cultures, while sharing her own recipes and dishes.