Huntington, New York, United States
Dr. Michael Grant is a licensed Clinical Psychologist (SC #1071) whose work over the past 20+ years has included direct provision of behavioral healthcare services in both private solo and group practice settings and within the Veterans Health Admininistration (VHA) at Northport VAMC in Northport, NY. He is a Diplomate in The Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy, and is currently in the certification process of The American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP), Board of Behavioral and Cognitive Psychology. When he is not working as a psychologist or an organizational/leadership development consultant, he does voiceover and narration work for a variety of clients around the world including Celebrity Cruises, Goodwill, Samsung, and others. You can see and hear examples of his work here: www.michaelmgrant.com He also loves creating things and designing and building little "dreams" people bring to him. He has created bespoke pieces for home and garden and original creations he has sold in galleries. He works in the media of wood, steel, and clay. He creates custom carpentry and architectural elements, custom wrought iron gates, railings, screens, and both stoneware and porcelain pottery of all types. See examples of his creations at www.michaelgrantdesigns.com He does not see any "walls" between his work as a psychologist, consultant or as an artist. He believes that helping individuals and organizations reenvision, redesign, and recreate (or create for the first time) IS what individual and organizational growth and change is all about. He employs every bit of the creativity he uses in his artistic pursuits in his individual and organizational psychological consulting work. This makes his work fresh, interesting, compelling, and helps tap the motivation of those involved to make the changes needed so they can fly!
As a Primary Care Mental Health Integrated (PCMHI) psychologist, provided integrated Behavioral Health consultation and interventions to assist primary care team members with identification, treatment, and management of mental health and behavioral medicine conditions in the veteran population. Conducted in-person, telephone, and telehealth 30-minute Collocated Collaborative Care Functional Assessments including evidence-based measurement via PHQ-9, PCL, AUDIT-C, and CRSE (Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluation), etc. Offered just-in-time curbside consultations to primary care team and provided liaison/consultation, crisis management, and patient care education services in primary care meetings, PCMH clinic huddles, and via Microsoft TEAMs interface. Provided patient follow-up and evidence-based brief, 30-minute therapy and Motivational Interviewing (MI) techniques/sessions as needed for both general behavioral health problems (depression, anxiety, PTSD, etc.) and special areas of behavioral medicine (chronic pain, obesity, and sleep problems). Created and offered group and/or psychoeducational classes: CBT and ACT for patient-focused chronic pain skills development, wellness/HPDP issues, weight management (MOVE!), insomnia, etc. Provided care management to veterans via triage and referral to specialty Mental Health, Vocational Rehabilitation, Psychiatry, CBOC, county-based VA disability, and other services/agencies. Conducted psychological evaluation consults for pre-bariatric and other surgeries as requested. Supervised psychology interns as appropriate in their provision of many of the above services in the PCMH setting. Focused integrating chronic pain patient treatment across Northport VAMC services: Psychology, Psychiatry, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, and veterans who had become stable in medication-assisted treatment (MAT) of Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) at the Northport VA Access Center.
Provided psychology assessment and treatment services in general clinical psychology outpatient practice. Evaluations included those for surgical interventions (bariatric and spinal cord stimulator), court-ordered and attorney requested assessments, fitness for duty (Police department, Dept. of Homeland Security, etc.), Immigration and Naturalization Services, school, etc. Provided therapy services to individuals and couples using, primarily, a Cognitive-Behavioral approach. Diplomate in the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies. Practice name changed to Coastal Psycholoical Consulting, PA from Coastal Center for Cognitive Therapy, PA in 2014.
Leadership development and organizational effectiveness consulting: individual and organizational assessment, strategic human resource consulting, executive coaching, performance management, training design and delivery, etc. Retained as a consultant with a number of Fortune 500 companies including BellSouth, Caterpillar, Marriott, Westinghouse, Motorola, Schering-Plough, Harcourt Publishing, and Verizon Wireless. Consulted in various capacities with academic and healthcare organizations including Georgia State University, Emory University School of Medicine, The Medical College of Georgia, Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital, Children’s Healthcare of Alabama, and Tenet Health System. Coordinated executive/leadership development, training development & delivery, and research project management at the Medical College of Georgia. At MCG, and in a variety of other settings, conducted original research, resulting in 17 publications in nationally respected, peer-reviewed healthcare journals, encyclopedias, or business magazines. In addition to work with for-profit enterprises, consulted with non-profit organizations such as Habitat for Humanity and a variety of federal and state governmental organizations including NASA (Johnson and Stennis Space Centers) following the Columbia disaster. In 1986, founded and was the first President of a 501-c-3 non-profit corporation formed to develop a leadership training center northeast of Atlanta. While engaged in this project, worked in various training roles in the Atlanta district of a multi-national non-profit organization.