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 History about MINDCare and Our Team
MINDCare Professional Consulting resulted after years
of working in the traditional mental health field. Our mission is to increase
awareness and knowledge about psychological health care and decrease
the negative stigma in society regarding mental health and mental illness.
Everyone
has mental health. If everyone could asses, understand, and manage
psychological well being better, society would be much healthier and safer. The primary focus
is to make education and information more accessible, convenient, and affordable regarding psychological health. Education and information is provided by interactive professional counseling, consulting, and coaching.
Everyone deserves to learn about they way
they think, feel, and behave. Also everyone must understand that
psychological health is an integral component of overall health.
 Since
psychological health is the result of genetics and learning, it is
imperative that adults especially parents are more educated and better
skilled to teach their children (all youth) healthy ways
to think, feel, and behave.
Education enhances
and improves overall cognitive, emotional, and behavioral health (in
other words psychological health). Many behaviors, such as abuse,
chronic arguing, aggression, addiction, divorce, violence, homicide,
crime, suicide, and negative feelings, such as sadness, guilt, anger,
fear, anxiety, and worry strongly indicate the acute need for MINDCare
services.
Please
give psychological health some thought and if you are a parent or if
you interact with youth on a regular please consider the impact of your interactions with them on
their psychological development and health.
Dianne DeSantis MS Founder
Ms. DeSantis founded MINDCare after many years working in the traditional mental health field. Ms. DeSantis is a psychological healthcare consultant. She is a locally recognized parenting
coach and expert. She earned her
undergraduate degree in Psychology from University of Maryland, her MS in Applied Psychology and Quantitative Methods,
specializing in Childhood Development and Anxiety Disorders from University of
Baltimore, and is currently earning her PhD. in Psychology. Ms.
DeSantis was employed as a clinician in a variety of mental health arenas including Johns
Hopkins Hospital, Child and Adolescent Community Psychiatry
Outpatient Departments, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program, school-based program, Children’s
Center, University of Maryland Medical Systems, and Baltimore City School System. Ms. DeSantis held the position as Director of Crisis Interventions Programs at Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center and served on the Howard County Mobile Crisis and Disaster Teams. Ms. DeSantis is also a certified ASIST Trainer (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training). Ms. DeSantis also is the mother of four children, has produced parenting videos, and has over 30 years of parenting experience. She is a facilitator for Parenting Classes and Anger Management training at Howard County General Hospital and other facilities. Currently Ms. DeSantis writes for the Baltimore Examiner Family and Parenting online, as well as other online parenting sites. She has worked with at-risk youth and abused children at Living Classrooms, Cultural Arts Institute, and CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates). Ms. DeSantis has an extensive background in business and has also worked and volunteered as an instructor/trainer for other community
organizations, the American
Red Cross, and the Department of Natural Resources. She has served on many boards and currently serving on the boards for BBR (Better Bed Rest Inc.)
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