Danny Pencak is a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA) serving as the Chief Financial Officer for Muir Wood overseeing the company’s revenue cycle management, accounting, and financial operations.
Danny has over twenty years of experience in financial management within the healthcare sector. His most recent CFO position, prior to joining Muir Wood, included facilitating strategic acquisitions and expansion for Akeso Occupational Health. Danny led Akeso to grow into one of California’s largest providers of occupational medicine services. Prior to joining Akeso, Danny held various other financial management positions with key accomplishments including raising $1.8 billion for a specialty diagnostic laboratory and executing over $10 billion in transactions for KPMG’s healthcare advisory group.
In addition to serving as CFO for Muir Wood, Danny serves on the Board of Directors for several non-profit organizations including the Boys and Girls Club of Vista and the La Costa Valley 35 Athletic Club.
Who We Are
Muir Wood treats primary mental health and co-occurring substance use disorders with equal clinical depth. Our approach is mental health-first, trauma-informed throughout, and grounded in nationally recognized expertise in adolescent substance use treatment.
Every program is designed exclusively for teens, with specialized environments for those needing an even greater level of psychiatric, trauma, or clinical support — like our Penngrove campus for girls, and our upcoming Sonoma Mountain campus for boys (Fall '26).
Mental Health First
Every program treats primary MH — anxiety, depression, trauma, mood — as the core clinical focus.
Trauma-Informed Lens
Every staff interaction, not just therapy, is filtered through a trauma lens. It is our operating principle, not a modality.
Integrated SUD Expertise
Substance use is treated alongside mental health throughout all programs, not in a separate track.
Adolescent Specialists
Every clinician, psychiatrist, nurse, and educator works exclusively with teens ages 12–17.
We Treat the Whole Teen
Nothing is treated in isolation, because nothing exists in isolation.
Every teen arrives with behaviors that developed for a reason — ways of coping with or adapting to emotional pain. Our role is to understand what's driving those patterns and build healthier, more sustainable ways of regulating and coping.
Mental Health
Trauma Informed
Emotional Functioning
Family Systems
Why Specialized Programming Matters
Many teens benefit from environments designed around shared clinical presentations and needs.
Greater Peer Alignment
Shared clinical presentations create more cohesive, therapeutically relevant group dynamics.
Individualized Treatment
Approaches tailored to the specific developmental and psychiatric profile of each population.
Improved Emotional Safety
Environments designed to reduce threat, increase predictability, and foster genuine connection.
Clinically Relevant Groups
Group therapy dynamics mirror real-world experiences of teens with similar presentations.
Lower-Stimulation Environments
Sensory and environmental design calibrated to the needs of highly activated or sensitive teens.
Enhanced Psychiatric Support
Specialized staff training and clinical protocols matched to the population's complexity.