Healthcare Consultant| Clinical Health Psychologist
CurrentHealthcare consulting and clinical practice providing services to hospitals, post-acute care facilities, senior care housing, academic institutions, and individuals. Designed and conducted hundreds of leadership seminars, train the trainer programs, executive coaching, strategic planning, expert witness testimonies, operational and programming development for dementia care programs. Created the Holistic Dementia Care® certification training program for providers. Collaborate with architect and development firms on structural and therapeutic design elements for efficient operations in memory care facilities. Organize training and education protocols for staff development in providing care for patients with comorbid dementia in acute and post-acute care settings. Assist operational team in transition from assisted living or nursing home protocols to dementia care services unique to a secured unitTrain physicians, nurses, and rehabilitation staff on care protocols for patients with dementia—including early diagnostic indictors, evaluation, and documentation of capacity and strategies for management of behavioral, and cognitive issues.Private clinical practice focusing on holistic health with specialty services for women in leadership, caregivers, and seniors. Provide leadership briefings, workshops, training, and consultation. Assessment and therapy for general psychological conditions with a specialty on co-morbid medical and psychological disorders Competency Evaluations for four counties—special focus on undue influence and capacity for wills, trust and other legal documents, competency to leaving AMA and capacity to consent for procedures and refusal of life-sustaining procedures
