Treatment Team

The Lighthouse uses an Interdisciplinary team of professionals including:

Executive Director

As a mother and primary caregiver of a behaviorally challenged head injured son, our Executive Director brings with her a personal and extensive background of 16 years of experience with traumatic brain injury. Administratively, she has served as the president of the Saginaw chapter of Michigan Head Injury Alliance for several years and is also an active member of the providers council of MHIA and state board MHIA. She oversees the treatment team and is ultimately responsible for ensuring that the residents receive proper treatment and services.

Clinical Director

Oversees the clinical therapeutic environment and consults on various professional issues. Works in conjunction with the other team members on developing and maintaining treatment plans.

Psychiatrist

Provides guidance in the implementation of the client's psychotropic medications and oversees the general psychiatric condition of the residents.

Psychologist

Provides Individual psychotherapy dealing with such issues as social-emotional adjustment, frustration tolerance, anger management, brain injury education, coping skills, and deficit awareness. Design and monitor individual behavior programs. Supportive counseling to families as well as consultation to staff is also made available.

Social Worker

Provides supportive therapies including individual and group to the client and family to facilitate social and emotional adjustment. Works with the Executive Director and therapists to formulate, coordinate, and implement individual plans of services and provide a link that ensures the involvement of family members and/or responsible parties. Facilitates substance abuse groups.

Registered Nurse

On staff full-time and is experienced in head injury and rehabilitation. Provides nursing assessment and care, participates in treatment planning, and works directly with clients. Highly trained with neuro-intensive specialty. Case management experience.

Education Director

Acts as a liaison between the school community and the client to aid the client in achieving their educational goal. One-on-one tutoring is also provided as needed.

Physical Therapist

Uses a variety of evaluative and treatment approaches to help clients achieve the fullest potential possible. Emphasis is placed on function, strength and quality of movement. Assistive device evaluation is also provided.

Physical Therapist Assistant

Works closely with the Physical Therapist to assist the clients to increase independence with movement of extremities. Also focus is placed on balance, posture, function, strength and quality of movement.

Occupational Therapist

Works closely with clients to increase independence in activities of daily living, including personal hygiene, bathing, dressing, cooking, feeding and use of adaptive equipment. Skills such as money and time management, work skills and behaviors, problem solving, community safety issues, and memory are also addressed to help the client obtain maximum potential.

Certified Occupational Therapist Assistant

Works closely with the occupational therapist to assist the clients to increase independence in self-care, pre-vocational, cognitive, memory, safety, fine and gross motor tasks.

Speech Therapist

Works with clients whose cognitive and communication skills have been impaired by brain injury. The speech therapist helps to restore or compensate for lost speech, language, cognitive, and swallow functioning. When oral communication is unattainable, the speech therapist helps the client learn to use alternative communication methods.

Recreation Therapist

Strives to meet rehabilitative and leisure needs of all persons limited in opportunities by training and equipping the client to achieve his/her optimum level of abilities. Provides opportunities for success by engaging in activities of creative self-expression, social development, self-awareness, learning and intellectual development essential to the rehabilitation process and community reintegration.

Music Therapist

Music is an ideal therapeutic tool because of the special place it holds in our day-to-day lives. We all use many forms of musical experience (listening, playing instruments, singing, moving to music, creating and discussing music to relax or energize) to teach, to express feeling, to stimulate memories and to bring us closer to one another. The Music Therapist is trained to structure all these aspects of music experience to improve communication and to promote social, emotional, motor and cognitive development.

Vocational/Workshop Director

Is specially trained in vocational development, supportive employment, Job coaching and time Management studies. Clients are individually evaluated for strengths, weaknesses and abilities as related to employment potential. He participates in Interdisciplinary team with insights into the functional areas of the clients.

Chaplain

Provides individual and group Bible studies for clients who request it. Makes arrangements for those who desire to attend the church of their choice, as well as arrange gospel hour programs and spiritual counseling.

Rehabilitation Aides

These individuals complete a training program which involves CPR, first aid, infection control, behavioral issues, vehicle safety, and emergency situations. The aides provide quality personal care, implement behavior plans, structure actives, attend medical appointments, assist in the completion of therapeutic actives and provide ongoing supervision and support.

Direct Care Staff

The staff completes a training program which involves CPR, first aid, infection control, behavioral issues, vehicle safety, and emergency situations The staff is also individually trained to provide quality personal care. Trained direct care staff are on-site and available throughout the night. (Trained direct care staff are awake and alert throughout the night to meet the needs of the clients.)