CHANGING THE FACE OF PATIENT CARE
At MediMental Care, we are constantly innovating and reinventing the care of traumatic stress injuries:
1. To provide highly innovative and effective care for traumatic stress injuries and related disorders. 2. To help ensure that the entire scope of traumatic stress injury is properly assessed, evaluated, and treated. 3. To perform our clinical and statutory duties to patients with integrity and expertise.
OUR UNIQUE SCOPE OF CLINICAL SERVICES
Our patients come to us from across the nation, suffering from a broad range of conditions which include not only traditional mental health maladies (such as depression, anxiety, adjustment disorder, divorce issues, and bereavement) but also traumatic stress injuries (which encompass both the mental and biomedical aspects of catastrophic or life threatening occurrences). In addition to serving individuals, our services as evaluators are sought by courts and governmental agencies in both civil actions and criminal prosecutions. Our clinical base of experience is vast, encompassing thousands of patients and more than two decades of care devoted to mental issues associated with:
Critical Burns
Gunshot Wounds
Toxic Gas Exposure
Traumatic Brain Injury
Combat Injury
Tortious Assault
Depression
Anxiety
The consequences of such occurrences include post traumatic stress injuries, which result in physical morbidity and even mortality. Despite the serious threats to health and life posed by these conditions, post traumatic injuries typically go unrecognized, undiagnosed, untreated, and uncompensated.
We
- are here to alter these potentially life-changing or life-threatening outcomes
- are here to treat patients whose conditions have subjected them to helplessness and hopelessness
- are here as dedicated clinical and forensic practitioners
- are armed with more complete diagnostic information, with which we may uncover latent or undisclosed conditions which other providers have overlooked
- are often able to help patients access new and unexplored routes to recovery
FACES OF MEDIMENTAL CARE
Dr. Chrysanthe L. Parker, Ed.D., J.D. F-AAETS, AAETS-CIT/CFT, CMHP, CFT, ECA-LM
Chief Executive Officer & Chief of Clinical Operations Divisional Director of Traumatology and Forensic Services
Dr. Chrysanthe (Chrys) L. Parker is a multiply-credentialed integrative healthcare provider, with 21 years of practice experience, founded upon 17 years of clinical education and training. Her unique practice serves not only those who suffer from classical forms of mental illness, but is also focused on the specialized needs of trauma-impacted patients who have sustained serious or catastrophic physical injuries, and have then developed serious comorbid traumatic stress injuries (TSI) or traumatic stress disorders as a result. She is both a treating and testifying clinical practitioner who renders evaluation and treatment services to many types of patients from all areas of the nation. In situations where she is either legally required (pursuant to a patient’s directive) or legally ordered (by a court of competent jurisdiction) to do so, Dr. Parker is well equipped to testify concerning traumatic stress injuries which her patients have suffered, and the profound effects which trauma exerts on their life, health, and survival. Among the 8000 patients whom Dr. Parker has served as a clinician are victims of critical burns, gunshot wounds, sexual and tortious assault, amputations, vehicular crashes, structural collapses, head injuries, spinal injuries, post-concussive injuries, toxic gas exposure, and mass shooting. She also treats depression, anxiety, and disorders stemming from acute loss and bereavement.
Dr. Parker is a Fellow of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress and holds professional credentialing from its certification board in both Illness/Medical Traumatology and Forensic Traumatology. She is one of only two practitioners in the United States to hold both certifications simultaneously. Dr. Parker is federally certified as a Mental Health Provider by the TRICARE federal insurance system and has been registered in the National Healthcare Provider Registry of the Department of Health and Human Services since 2001. She is also professionally credentialed as a Pastoral Counselor, Field Traumatologist, and Critical Incident Stress Management facilitator. As a medical and clinical educator and academician, Dr. Parker has served many of the nation’s most distinguished hospitals, medical institutions, the Department of Defense, and the US State Department. In addition to being a Member Associate of the Academy of Certified Physician Life Care Planners, she holds clinical membership in the American Counseling Association, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, the Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists, the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, and the Institute of Stress. She received a life appointment to the Order of Barristers in 1977, and to the FBI Academy for Citizens Alumni Association in 2010. Currently retired from active legal practice, Dr. Parker is in her 44th year as a member of the State Bar of Texas. She is married to a Texas cattleman and divides her time between homes in San Antonio and the ranch country outside Uvalde, Texas.
Dr. Kate Rodriguez, Ph.D., LPC-S, CFE
Divisional Director of Licensed Counseling Services Assistant Director of Clinical Operations
Dr. Kate Rodriguez lends an enormous breadth of both clinical and forensic experience to the MediMental Care team. Dr. Rodriguez earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the prestigious George Washington University, and then returned to Texas to earn her master’s degree in Marriage and Family Counseling from Texas A&M -Corpus Christi. After receiving her state licensure in Professional Counseling, she earned a Ph.D. in Counselor Education (also from Texas A&M), and ultimately received the much-coveted top licensure in counseling, that of Counseling Supervisor (LPC-S). Dr. Rodriguez is a National Certified Counselor, a National Certified Forensic Mental Health Evaluator, and a Clinical Forensic Counselor. She is married to Mike Treiber, her husband of 7 years, and the couple are the parents of two small children, aged 4 and 6.