Danielle Morales, LEP

Danielle Morales, M.A., C.A.S., LEP #4035, NCSP #65090, is Co-Director of The Bylund Clinic and a licensed educational psychologist who conducts psychoeducational evaluations, Independent Educational Evaluations (IEEs), and postsecondary transition evaluations. She works on complex evaluation cases involving layered mental health profiles, autism spectrum disorder, learning disorders, and special education matters involving due process. In her role as Co-Director, Ms. Morales supports the clinic's clinical leadership and daily operations and, alongside the Clinical Director, provides consultation, supervision, and case support to the clinic's team of assessing psychologists.

Ms. Morales has worked in educational, clinical, and research settings across New York, Missouri, and California, giving her broad experience with special education systems across developmental levels and service settings. Her background includes work in early childhood, elementary, secondary, and postsecondary planning contexts. During graduate training in Upstate New York, she completed practicum work in an early intervention preschool program serving children with autism and in elementary school settings. After moving to California, her work shifted primarily to high school and charter school environments, where she built and oversaw a postsecondary transition program. That experience shaped her focus on thorough, objective, and individualized transition assessment designed to connect IEP programming and educational services with adult expectations.

Her experience also includes work with students presenting with anxiety, mood, obsessive-compulsive, trauma-related, and other complex social-emotional needs. She has completed ERMHS evaluations and provided counseling services, and has experience with risk and threat assessment protocols, crisis management systems, MTSS, trauma-informed supports, functional behavioral assessments, Manifestation Determinations, Section 504, and special education regulation and implementation.

Earlier in her career, Ms. Morales served as a graduate assistant on a local evaluation team supporting Safe Schools/Healthy Students and 21st Century federal grant initiatives in the Adirondack region of Upstate New York. Her work included data analysis, program evaluation, school-site review, and coordination among schools and community agencies. She also completed an undergraduate internship in a traumatic brain injury clinic, where she supported clients with memory, communication, and affect-recognition activities and completed an advanced honors thesis related to emotional-expression identification.

In addition to her assessment and clinical leadership work, Ms. Morales co-hosts The Bylund Clinic Podcast, which addresses educational psychology, Independent Educational Evaluations, IEPs, psychoeducational assessment, intervention, advocacy, and neurodiverse learning needs. She has also co-presented with Clinical Director Dr. James Bylund on youth screen dependence and child and adolescent mental health for audiences at Orinda Academy, John Muir Hospital/Stanford Children's Health, and St. Agnes School.

Now accepting new clients through The Bylund Clinic in Walnut Creek, serving the East Bay. Please call (925) 418-4661 for inquiries.