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."