Preshuslee Thompson, Clinical and Occupational Social Worker, is the Founder and CEO of Preseli Equity Group Consulting LLC. Preseli Equity Group is a social enterprise consulting firm committed to conceptualizing, constructing, and championing an equitable future through fostering collective healing and respect for human dignity. Through Preseli Equity Group Preshuslee facilitates trainings, builds curriculums and assessments, and offers consulting to organizations committed to creating an equitable and accountable workplace culture.
Preshuslee has dedicated her career to the public service sector. She has worked with Youth and Adults healing from mental illness, alcohol, and drug addiction, sexual assault, intimate partner violence, being without shelter, as well as foster care and incarceration. Preshuslee served as the Training and Development Specialist at The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity where she led the development and facilitation of the Implicit Bias Trainer of Trainers. At Kirwan, Preshuslee facilitated over 300 trainings reaching more than 3000 people across the country and in Mexico. Preshuslee is a co-author of the report A Workforce for the Modern Woman: Strategic Planning for a Fair and Equitable Future and has published interviews on racial bias with The New York Times, Teen Vogue, The digital arm of Today Show, Medical Economics and local news outlets.
Under Preshuslee's leadership Preseli has been in service to communities and organizations across the state and country. She has offered consultation and facilitation around JEDI and Wellness for Educators, Non-Profit Leaders, Environmentalist, Water Equity Advocates, Community Members, and Executive Team members across multiple sectors.
Preshuslee, fondly referred to as Preshus is a Columbus, Ohio native and Licensed Social Worker. She has a passion for social work and creating spaces for collective healing and transformative conversation. Preshus’s top five strengths are intellection, ideation, connectedness, individualization, and relator. She is a dog mom and lover of nature and music.
Sandra Medley, Ph.D. is the Director of Behavioral and Psychology Services at Oakwood New Vista, Intermediate Care Facility for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Dr. Medley has provided services at Oakwood New Vista since 2006. In addition to supervising the clinical services of the Behavior and Psychology Department staff, she also provides direct behavioral treatment, mental health counseling, and behavioral/cognitive/psychological assessment services to both inpatient and outpatient clients with intellectual disabilities. Dr. Medley received specialized training in autism assessment and developed an outpatient autism assessment clinic for both children and adults. She also headed an inpatient group treatment program for clients at Oakwood New Vista utilizing the Skills System curriculum by Julie Brown. She is a licensed psychologist and earned her doctoral degree in psychology from the University of Kentucky.
Dr. Allison Simpson is a licensed clinical psychologist who works at Oakwood, an Intermediate Care Facility for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. She earned her doctorate in psychology at Eastern Kentucky University and completed an internship in health service psychology at Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health in Pennsylvania. Dr. Simpson specializes in serving individuals with neurodevelopmental disabilities through providing behavior supports, counseling, and assessment.
Understanding and Implementing a Cultural Humility Lens into Clinical Practice
Preshuslee Willis-Thompson, LMSW
Applications of The Emotion Regulation Skills System for Cognitively Challenged Clients: A DBT-Informed Approach
Sandra Medley, Ph.D. and Allison Simpson, Psy.D., HSP
Pediatric Abusive Head Trauma - Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky
Janna Estep Jordan, MSW
The Ever-Changing Landscape of Drug Use - What's Relevant Now?
Andrea Bruhn, MS, LMFT
Autism Spectrum Disorders & Anxiety: Treatment in Outpatient Settings
Brooke Ann Maupin, Psy.D.
Breaking Down Barriers to Treatment: Making Therapeutic Tools and Interventions Accessible for Clients with IDD
Allison Simpson, Psy.D., HSP
Untangling the Web: Navigating the Differential Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder, ADHD, PTSD, and Borderline Personality Disorder
Natasha Painter, LPCC-S, NCC
Can Burnout be Prevented?: How professional growth, burnout and clinical effectiveness are related
Don Rogers, M.A.
Substance Use 101
Jessica Marshal, APRN
Co-Occurring Disorders: Prevalence and Treatment
Andrea Bruhn, MS, LMFT
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