ABOUT
Daniel B. Peters, Ph.D. (“Dr. Dan”) is a psychologist, author, parenting expert, and host of Parent Footprint with Dr. Dan on Exactly Right. For over 25 years, Dr. Dan has been passionate about helping parents, children, and families realize and achieve their full potential while living with intention and purpose.
Dr. Dan is the author of Make Your Worrier a Warrior, From Worrier to Warrior, and The Warrior Workbook; as well as co-author of Boosting Your Child’s Natural Creativity and Bright, Complex Kids: Supporting Their Social and Emotional Development. His writing on topics related to parenting, family, giftedness, twice-exceptionality, dyslexia, and anxiety have appeared in The Huffington Post, Psychology Today, and other national media.
Dr. Dan is Co-Founder/Executive Director of the Summit Center, specializing in the assessment and treatment of children, adolescents, and families with a special emphasis on gifted, talented, and creative individuals and families as well as anxiety, overcoming fear, learning differences, neurodiversity, and more.
Dr. Dan regularly teaches parents how to parent with purpose and intention as the key to guiding children to reach their potential while parents also reach their own. Dr. Dan was recognized as “2018 SENG Mental Health Professional of the Year” by Supporting Emotional Needs of Gifted, and as “2016 Allen Ewig Champion for Children” by Aldea Children & Family Services. He received the “2013 CAG Distinguished Service Award” from the California Association for Gifted, the 2013 “Legacy Book Award” for Raising Creative Kids, and the “2014 Independent Publisher Book Award - Gold Medal, Psychology/Mental” for Make Your Worrior a Warrior.
Dr. Dan speaks regularly at national conferences and to the media about parenting, learning differences, special needs, giftedness/2e (twice exceptionality), education, neurodiversity, mental health, and more. He is the father of three children and lives in Northern California with his family.
