Jim Probert Email and Phone Number

I was training coordinator at the Alachua County (FL) Crisis Center from 1996-2001. I now work as an individual therapist & Peer Services coordinator at UFCWC. That role includes provision of rights-based, trauma-informed professional training & consultation (in mental health recovery/reclamation & working w/individuals facing suicide danger) & co-facilitation of peer support groups (including Intentional Peer Support, Wellness Recovery Action Plan, & Experiential Peer Support, incorporating Hearing Voices Movement values & training). I also engage w/ students in peer services consultation sessions (e.g., addressing informed consent, non-consensual-intervention trauma, & human rights/service-user movement perspectives on suicide danger & non-consensus states). My 2021 article, “Moving Toward a Human Rights Approach to Mental Health” (https://rdcu.be/cjOxr ) published in Community Mental Health Journal, highlights in-depth descriptions of these CWC programs & my own lived experience. (For more in-depth introduction to training principles for working w/individuals facing suicide danger, see below. *)As a therapist in a system concentrating on short-term therapy, I work w/ a flexible focus which may include: a mindfulness approach to intentional living; mind-body healing & wellness approaches; grief work; existential/spiritual exploration; and personal & intergenerational/collective trauma recovery/renegotiation. (For a brief introduction to tools I often offer as a therapist--including “Emotional Fitness” & the “Two-Story” trauma recovery approaches—see below. **)As an individual who identifies as both a MH professional and a peer in international service user movements, I work from a liberational, rights-based perspective–w/ an intention to acknowledge & respect each individual’s intersecting identities & freely chosen & developing worldview(s)–& supporting efforts to reclaim or maintain meaning, purpose, wellness, vitality, and community inclusion & engagement. I am now working on a 2nd article about healing & human rights—and hope to follow it up, finally, w/ a book. --All available at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jim_Probert/research :*Part 1. Toward a more trauma- & recovery-informed practice of lethality assessment & suicide prevention. SAMHSA Recovery to Practice Highlights (2014).Pt. 2 Further discussion for the need to develop more comprehensive guidelines for lethality assessment, revised, 2011. ** “An Approach to MH Recovery & Cultivating "Emotional Fitness . . . “2017 Alternatives Conference handout.