Bio: Deanna Counts Goldy

​Deanna has been learning alongside and coaching neurodiverse, developmentally divergent, and twice-exceptional individuals in a professional capacity since 2015. The heart of her work lies in creating opportunities for deep growth, self-actualization, and meaningful skill-building. She is grateful for each opportunity to nurture our human capacity for curiosity, joyful connection, and authentic communication. Deanna advocates for learning grounded in trust, co-regulation, and interoceptive awareness. She believes there is deep value to cultivating shared narratives and that everyone has the right to be the author of their lives. Deanna was born and raised in Seattle and has a professional background in landscape architecture, with a focus on community-centered design and ecological democracy. Both she and her wife are proudly neurodivergent; they share their home with dogs, a cat, books, and music. Deanna enjoys choral singing, hammock camping, being outside, cooking without recipes, creating mixed-media art, reading about the autistic/neurodiverse experience, and getting lost in London bookstores.