Elizabeth has a PhD in Social Psychology, is a licensed clinical social worker and a Master Addiction Counselor, who has been in clinical practice for over 25 years. She was one of the early Integrated Behavioral Health vanguard leaders in California and now has over 15 years of success in helping medical organizations evolve into integrated care systems to include behavioral health and addictive conditions services, complex care management and social care programs. She has developed and conducted hundreds of workshop series and train the facilitator courses in empathy and equity-based communication and practices.
Elizabeth knows that elevating, enhancing and amplifying strengths is more effective than focusing on trying to mitigate limitations. She practices seeing communities, organizations and teams through a strength-based lens, elicits the hopes, goals and vision of your team, then with you, collaboratively creates a work plan addressing both content and process.
Elizabeth’s belief and experience is that a team with a diversity of perspectives and lived experiences produce the highest quality work. To that end, she has a group of dynamic, astute, humble and curious group of consultants who work with her, allowing her to choose the perfect configuration of consultants to work on your project.
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Meet the Team
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Our values
Empathy
Empathy directly impacts patient health outcomes and staff and provider satisfaction. All our work seeks to elevate opportunities to enhance empathy in day to day care provision.
Equity
Health Equity is a moral issue. All our work centralizes increasing practices that decrease health disparities, racism, stigma and other forms of discrimination.
Relationship
True healing, help and change happens in the context of relationships. We imperfectly strive to practice relationship-based collaboration and communication in all we do.
Humanizing Healthcare
EM Consulting specialize in helping healthcare organizations elevate the human connection at all levels: clinical, operational, leadership and community.
How we work with you
Aligning with your goals
We dig in with you, to make sure we understand what you want for your project, initiative or organization.
Establish a plan and measures
We collaborate with you to discuss strategies and
how we will measure success.
Execute, communicate and measure
We hit the ground running, communicating how and when works best for your team.
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