Danielle Burns
Family Health Centers of San Diego
USA
Dr. Danielle Burns is an interdisciplinary scholar and practitioner whose career bridges clinical science, ecological theory, and depth psychology. Her work integrates trauma-informed care, attachment theory, and culturally responsive mental health practices with regenerative leadership models and global health frameworks. With experience leading community-based health initiatives, managing multidisciplinary clinical teams, and teaching across academic institutions, Dr. Burns contributes to the advancement of inclusive, relationally grounded education and systems transformation.
Her scholarship is rooted in ecological and cultural studies, kincentric life systems, and ancestral epistemologies, which she applies to both therapeutic and pedagogical contexts. Through narrative inquiry and phenomenological research, she investigates the role of symbolic systems and storytelling in shaping personal and collective transformation. Her theoretical contributions extend into the domains of physics and depth psychology, where she explores field theory and relational dynamics as foundational to emotional regulation, bioacoustics, and ecological intimacy. Dr. Burns also engages Jungian and archetypal studies to examine the universal patterns that inform human experience through myth, dream, spirituality, and trauma. In her keynote at ASTROSUMMIT-2026, Dr. Burns offers a transdisciplinary perspective on planetary habitats, proposing that psychological, ecological, and symbolic frameworks can meaningfully inform space science and cosmological inquiry. Her work invites scientists and scholars to consider how relational systems—both terrestrial and cosmic—might be understood through the lenses of emotional resonance, developmental sensitivity, and regenerative design, fostering a more integrative and humane vision of planetary exploration.
Her scholarship is rooted in ecological and cultural studies, kincentric life systems, and ancestral epistemologies, which she applies to both therapeutic and pedagogical contexts. Through narrative inquiry and phenomenological research, she investigates the role of symbolic systems and storytelling in shaping personal and collective transformation. Her theoretical contributions extend into the domains of physics and depth psychology, where she explores field theory and relational dynamics as foundational to emotional regulation, bioacoustics, and ecological intimacy. Dr. Burns also engages Jungian and archetypal studies to examine the universal patterns that inform human experience through myth, dream, spirituality, and trauma. In her keynote at ASTROSUMMIT-2026, Dr. Burns offers a transdisciplinary perspective on planetary habitats, proposing that psychological, ecological, and symbolic frameworks can meaningfully inform space science and cosmological inquiry. Her work invites scientists and scholars to consider how relational systems—both terrestrial and cosmic—might be understood through the lenses of emotional resonance, developmental sensitivity, and regenerative design, fostering a more integrative and humane vision of planetary exploration.
