Tonya
Girard,
MS, LMFT
Senior Marital and Family Therapist
University of Rochester School of Medicine
Tonya Girard, LMFT, is a Sr. Marital and Family Therapist at the University of Rochester. While co-located at Highland Family Medicine, she provided trauma-informed, patient-centered, and systemic biopsychosocial mental health treatment to underserved populations within her community. Tonya is a Collaborative Care and Wellness Division member at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY. She is a clinical supervisor and teaches the Family Therapy Practice course at the University of Rochester's Marital and Family Therapy Training Program for students beginning who are launching into clinical practicum.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Among the many side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the exponential rise of mental health distress remains a considerable threat to public health, to wellness among our healthcare professionals, and yet another source of suffering for the patients and families they care for. Pre-pandemic efforts to integrate behavioral health into primary and specialty medical care comprise a critical foundation for responding to this distress as a vital aspect of whole-person/whole-family health; the surge in need, and in distress of our healthcare workforce, demonstrated that those efforts alone would be…