Susie Morozowich (LMSW, LCSW). The Impact of Mental Health on Entrepreneurs.

Columbia MD
Tue, Mar 23, 6:00 PM (EDT)

About this event

Mental health and wellness are so important that we are hosting Mental Health and Wellness month all through March. In partnership with our Baltimore and Frederick chapters, plus many Startup Grind chapters around the world, we'll bring awareness to the issues and help de-stigmatize mental health in an effort to improve our fellow entrepreneurs, founders, co-founders, and team members.

As part of this series, we're pleased to host Susie Morozowich, LMSW, LCSW, CEO, and founder of Telebehavioral Health US, a leading provider of telebehavioral health services with a professional staff of more than 25 licensed clinicians and social workers.

Within her event, she will share her story, journey and lessons learned going from facing her own behavioral health challenges to bootstrapping her startup, Telebehavioral Health US., and how she deals with them as a founder, CEO and leader in behavioral health innovation while helping others understand their own.

As Susie will share, it's time to confront and address our individual and collective mental health. Did you know that 72% of we entrepreneurs suffer from one or more mental health issues and are 50% more likely to report having mental health issues compared to the general population?

Starting a business comes with many unique challenges. With 90% of start-ups failing within the first year, the pressure is on for entrepreneurs to produce results in the face of almost imminent failure.

National mental health statistics are troubling. 2020/2021 have only made them worse. Statistics for entrepreneurs, founders, co-founders, and management teams of startups, early-stage, and high growth companies are downright terrifying

3X more likely to suffer from depression, anxiety, stress, and fear
6X more likely to suffer from ADHD
3X more likely to suffer from substance abuse
10X more likely to suffer from bipolar disorder
2X more likely to have psychiatric hospitalization
2X more likely to have suicidal thoughts

Now more than ever, we need to provide ourselves, our company's, our co-workers, and our communities with the help and assistance that will help identify the issues, demystify the stigmas, and provide tools, techniques, and access to resources we need to more effectively deal with our mental health and well-being.

So, what's in it for you?

Recognition that you are not crazy and similar to other entrepreneurs.
We all suffer from negative mental health issues.
Learn multiple ways that you can better manage and control your mental health and that of your team.
Tools, techniques, and exercises that you can implement immediately.
Learn how to be happier and more productive.

Speaker

Susie Morozowich, LMSW, LCSW

Founder and CEO

Susie Morozowich, LMSW, LCSW

Susie Morozowich, LMSW, LCSW is the CEO and founder of Telebehavioral Health.US. She has been a Licensed Clinical Social Worker since 2004 and is one of the first clinicians in the United States to adopt a nationally supported telebehavioral health mode. Her experience in the field of behavioral health has been an eclectic mix of direct practice, clinical supervision, and program development. ♦♦♦♦ "I have been a Clinical Social Worker since graduating from Grand Valley State University with my Master's Degree in 2004. My career in social work has consisted of long hours that regularly extended into the evenings and included numerous “side gigs,” to make a sustainable living. Whether I was teaching classes at a local university, providing on-call case management with an insurance company, facilitating speaking engagements or professional development courses, or moonlighting as a clinical supervisor, I was left with less and less time with, and for, my children. Putting food on the table and a roof over our heads was necessary, having time with my children was a luxury. I love being a social worker and like most social workers will tell you being a social worker is more than a job or career, it is a calling. Unfortunately, the field does not leave much room for life outside of social work." ♦♦♦♦ "Telebehavioral Health US has grown from just Susie as a single practitioner to a thriving practice of 25 therapists and a Nurse Practitioner. " I started the company on my own with no investment, other than my own “sweat equity.” I carried a low volume of patients and scraped by financially so I could build the practice in a way that felt like building a sandcastle, one grain of sand at a time. I was one of the first providers in the country to adopt the American Telemedicine Association and American Psychological Association “Direct to Consumer” model using a Video Telecommunications Platform." ♦♦♦♦ "Being the first meant forging a lot of new territory with payers and consumers. For starters, when I started, there was no one to assure me that I would be able to get reimbursed, telehealth was such an unknown. I would spend hours on the phone with the insurance company's service reps who had never heard of anyone doing what I was trying to do resulting in unbearably slow reimbursement. I remember a time, two years after I started the practice, I received a monthly newsletter from United Behavioral Health, announcing to Licensed Clinical Social Workers how we could “now start billing for telebehavioral health services.” United had been reimbursing me for telebehavioral health for almost two years. In 2019, I added a “co-founder” and Chief Operations Officer to help me with the business operations and implementing a sustainable and scale-able business model."

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Susie Morozowich (LMSW, LCSW). The Impact of Mental Health on Entrepreneurs.

Columbia MD
Tue, Mar 23, 6:00 PM (EDT)

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Speaker

Susie Morozowich, LMSW, LCSW

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Ellen Stokes

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Josh Massey

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Susie Morozowich (LMSW, LCSW). The Impact of Mental Health on Entrepreneurs.

Columbia MD Tue, Mar 23, 6:00 PM (EDT)

About this event

Speaker

Susie Morozowich, LMSW, LCSW

Susie Morozowich, LMSW, LCSW

Brought to you by

Chris Haug

Sean Sutherland

Ellen Stokes

Patrick Rockhill

Josh Massey

Lara Azzam

Local Sponsors

TEDCO

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Columbia MD
Tue, Mar 23, 6:00 PM (EDT)