Cole Dyar

About Cole Dyar

I\'ve spent 13 years building behavioral health programs from the inside and ground floor. Not advising from the outside — running them and working within them. Hiring teams, designing clinical systems, managing crises at 2am, and fighting for every authorization. I co-founded Neurish Wellness and serve as Executive Director, leading operations across multiple residential treatment facilities under a ~300 person behavioral health network umbrella. I also lead our Virtual IOP program. Before that, I spent 7 years at Southern California Recovery Centers — from Operations Manager to Clinical Case Manager to Program Director — and served as Executive Director of Operations for a crisis stabilization program where we designed and built the system with an incredible team. What I\'ve built across that arc: → PSP™ — the Psychosis Safety Protocol. A five-level crisis response framework developed from doctoral research, now archived in the EAPA Digital Archive at the University of Maryland Baltimore. Peer-reviewed. Designed to give staff a structured system when clinical judgment alone isn\'t enough. → A measurement-based care infrastructure tracking PHQ-9, GAD-7, BAM-R, PCL-5, and C-SSRS across every patient at every facility — because \"we feel like they\'re getting better\" doesn\'t survive a payor audit. → Clinical program design across residential, PHP, IOP, and virtual IOP levels of care — building treatment models from scratch and standardizing quality across multiple facilities without losing what makes each program work. → Direct crisis training delivery as a CPI Instructor (NCI Advanced, Mental Health Training) and QPR Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Instructor — designing and running the staff education programs that prepare teams for the moments that matter most. I hold a Doctorate in Marriage & Family Therapy (Systemic Administration & Entrepreneurship), an MS in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, and a BA in Sociology from UC Santa Cruz. I\'m a Licensed Advanced Alcohol & Drug Counselor, Certified Employee Assistance Professional, CPI Instructor (NCI Advanced, Mental Health Training), and QPR Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Instructor. I\'m deeply interested in where clinical systems, technology, and AI intersect — and I\'m actively exploring how AI can strengthen the work that behavioral health teams do every day. If you work in behavioral health operations, treatment leadership, EAP, crisis services, or value-based care — Lets connect

Experience

1. Northbound Treatment Services

   Present

Education

• Northcentral University

  Master of Science - MS, Industrial and Organizational Psychology

  2017 — 2019

• National University

  Doctorate of Marriage & Family Therapy (DMFT), Specialization: Systemic Administration & Entrepreneurship

• MTS (Marste Training Services)

  AOD credential, Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling

  2015 — 2016

• University of California, Santa Cruz

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Sociology

  2000 — 2004