Danny Gelalich

Danny works with adolescents and adults, including couples. He's especially comfortable helping clients with anxiety, stress management, depression, anger management, emotion regulation, men's issues, and sport and performance psychology. He's also open to supporting clients navigating grief and loss, trauma, addiction, and substance use.

Yes. Danny works with couples who want to improve communication, work through recurring conflict, rebuild trust and connection, or navigate stress and life transitions together. His approach is collaborative and goal-oriented, so both partners have a voice and a clear sense of what they're working toward.

Sport and performance psychology focuses on the mental side of performing under pressure. Danny helps athletes and other high performers work through performance anxiety, confidence, focus, motivation, stress, and setbacks using evidence-based approaches like CBT and ACT. As a former Division I baseball player, he understands the demands of competition firsthand. You don't need to be a competitive athlete to benefit; the same skills apply to students, musicians, and professionals who feel pressure to perform.

Danny's primary areas of focus are anxiety, stress management, sport and performance psychology, men's issues, depression, anger management, and emotion regulation. He also has experience with grief and loss, trauma, addiction, and substance use, and brings a collaborative, goal-focused approach to all of them.

Danny integrates person-centered principles with CBT and ACT to create a collaborative, goal-oriented environment built around growth and healing. He may also use motivational interviewing to help you build momentum around the changes you want to make. The goal is always practical tools and real progress you can feel outside the therapy room.

Yes. Danny works with men navigating stress, anger, identity, relationships, and the pressure to hold it all together. He has experience leading emotion regulation groups and helps clients understand what's beneath anger and big emotions, and build skills to respond in healthier ways.

Danny sees clients at Willow Therapy's Orem office (568 E 1400 S) and Pleasant Grove office (233 S Pleasant Grove Blvd). He also provides secure, HIPAA-compliant telehealth therapy to clients anywhere in Utah, whether you're in Salt Lake City, Provo, St. George, or anywhere in between.

Yes. Danny accepts most major insurance plans including Aetna, Select Health, PEHP, Blue Cross Blue Shield, EMI Health, United Healthcare, and MotivHealth. HSA/FSA is also accepted. Verify your coverage online at no cost.

Danny is a licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (CMHC). He holds a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology with a clinical mental health counseling focus from the University of Denver and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Brigham Young University, where he was also a Division I baseball student-athlete. His background includes individual, couples, and group therapy in community mental health, private practice, university clinic, and school settings.