"Dr Jamie" Huysman is a Psychologist and Board Certified licensed clinical social worker. In addition, he is a Certified Addictions Counselor, a Compassion Fatigue therapist and an Eriksonian Hypnotherapist.He uses every license and certification he has acquired in growing, with great love, passion and dedication The Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation.
He is the Co-Author of "Take Your Oxygen First. Protecting Your Health and Happiness While Caring for a Loved One with Memory Loss." He is the Executive Director and Co-founder of The Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation. Along with his friend, TV personality Leeza Gibbons, he cr...Read More
"Dr Jamie" Huysman is a Psychologist and Board Certified licensed clinical social worker. In addition, he is a Certified Addictions Counselor, a Compassion Fatigue therapist and an Eriksonian Hypnotherapist.He uses every license and certification he has acquired in growing, with great love, passion and dedication The Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation.
He is the Co-Author of "Take Your Oxygen First. Protecting Your Health and Happiness While Caring for a Loved One with Memory Loss." He is the Executive Director and Co-founder of The Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation. Along with his friend, TV personality Leeza Gibbons, he created Leeza's Place, (www.leezasplace.org) "A Place for Caregivers," a national program aimed at dealing with the burnout, fatigue and challenges caregivers face.
In addition to co authoring "Take Your Oxygen First," Dr. Jamie has written the forward to Voices of Caregiving and the Afterword to the book Voices of Alcoholism.
He currently oversees ten cities that serve thousands of caregivers every day. His innovative programming designed for caregivers and utilized by thousands around the country center around unique approaches to dealing with all "2008 caregiver challenges," both family and professional in scope. His work includes innovative national tele communications efforts, pioneering research designs in behalf of caregivers and advocacy for caregivers in the national healthcare debate currently underway.
Dr. Jamie speaks nationally, www.drjamie.com and his approach is to "educate, empower and energize” his audiences while also shifting the consciousness around caregiving. His affordable trainings, seminars and weekend retreats are designed to provide motivational and inspirational energy targeted for any caregiver oriented audience. He is sought out by associations, agencies, corporations and organizations in every region Leeza's Place currently is serving
caregivers.
Voted the NASW Social Worker of the Year 2008 by the State of Florida, Dr. J is a well known international speaker specializing in compelling caregiver topics and working with the worlds of TV, Radio & Print to "heal rather than hurt." He has often written for several major national publications such as Today’s Caregiver Magazine and Recover Magazine.
In his private practice he works with individuals, couples and families using innovative psychotherapeutic techniques .The client-therapist relationship is the essence of all of his work yesterday, today and tomorrow. Staying connected to the resilience of the transformative human spirit is vital for his presentations and his administrative life.
Among his areas of expertise are caregiver innovations, mental health challenges such as depression and bipolar disorder and the treatment of addictions and co-addictions of all types. His intergenerational work with adolescents, adults and seniors serve as a vital component for his work with LGMF, as well.
Dr Jamie has presented on TV, radio and at many national conferences since 1991, appearing on hundreds of talk, court and reality shows, beginning a state of the art program that assisted thousands of people called TV Aftercare.
He speaks to general audiences on all topics ranging from caregiver burnout, mental health challenges, mind, body, soul work and corporate approaches to wellness.