Danny Ludwig is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Missouri with 30 years of experience. He holds a Missouri clinical social work license (MO LCSW 001585) and combines clinical practice with a background in education to support clients across different environments.
Much of his work has focused on blending counseling and classroom-based approaches to help primarily disadvantaged youth and young adults. He views classroom settings as practical places to identify obstacles to growth and to explore new choices and paths.
His primary therapeutic method is Reality Therapy and Control Theory, as developed by Dr. William Glasser, an approach closely related to cognitive behavioral therapy. He finds this model straightforward and effective and works from the perspective that changing thoughts can produce changes in behavior.
Outside of his clinical work, he is a lifelong endurance runner and triathlete and an avid outdoorsman, and he values the influence that exercise, experiential education activities, outdoor pursuits, and fresh air can have on a person’s outlook. He encourages setting goals – even small ones – and taking concrete steps to pursue them.
He appreciates that taking time to select a therapist is a meaningful beginning on the path to self-improvement and offers practical, goal-oriented support for parenting issues, anger management, self-esteem, depression, coping with life changes, stress, anxiety, relationship and family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, career difficulties, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.