Consultants and Affiliations

Veronica D. Carey

PhD, CPRP, Assistant Clinical Professor, Drexel University, USA

Veronica Carey is Associate Director of the Saturday Scholars Program, Behavioral Health Counseling Department, Drexel University. Dr. Carey has over 20 years of experience in behavioral health program planning and management, continuing education training, and policy development. She is a member of the United Stated Psychiatric Rehabilitation Certification Commission, the International Committee for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Inclusion, and is a consultant to Pennsylvania’s Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse.

Michele Blankenberg

THRESHOLDS, USA

Michele is a dependable, goal-oriented professional with extensive experience in behavioral health management, quality improvement, program conversions, addictions counseling and financial development. She implemented and maintained Thresholds’ only Illinois Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse-certified Substance Abuse and Mental Illness (SAMI) program, developed and implemented a Center for Recovery (CFR) for Spanish-speaking persons with Serious and Persistent Mental Illness (SMI), and co-wrote a proposal to the United Way for an expansion of Bilingual services to Cicero and Berwyn communities.

Catherine Batscha

DNP, RN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Catherine Batscha is a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner who has worked extensively with people with serious mental illness. She is trained in the use of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT for psychosis and motivational interviewing. Recent projects have focused on using CBT to enhance medication adherence, using CBT to decrease depressive symptoms in caregivers and detection of metabolic syndrome in people receiving antipsychotics and in persons experiencing a first episode of psychosis.

Anthony M. Zipple, ScD., MBA

Dr. Zipple is President and CEO of Centerstone Kentucky (formerly Seven Counties Services), based in Louisville, Kentucky. Dr. Zipple is also a Professor at Eastern Kentucky University and co-teaches courses in Psychiatric Rehabilitation ever offered at a Kentucky university. He has almost 40 years of experience as a clinical manager, public administrator, consultant, teacher, researcher, and executive in the field of behavioral health.