Consulting & Speaking
In addition to her clinical endeavours, Dr. Kolzet is dedicated to the advancement and modernization of mental health care. As such, she employs her skills as a behavioral health consultant to companies, including but not limited to, in the digital therapeutics space, startups, and community agencies. In these roles, she serves as a subject matter expert on provider quality, evidence-based and data-driven clinical practices, cutting edge behavioral science, culturally competent care, multidisciplinary collaboration and product development and implementation. Dr. Kolzet also gives innovative presentations and trainings to institutions so as to impart her clinical expertise and industry know-how, discuss trends in the worlds of mental health, behavioral health, sleep and technology, and mutually stay abreast of the landscape.
PRIOR CLIENTS & AUDIENCES
Consulting Work
Business Development & Strategic Partnerships
Dr. Kolzet leverages her expertise in mental and behavioral health in her work with varying teams at digital therapeutics companies and businesses. She builds strong relationships with internal stakeholders and provides clinical expertise and assistance in the development of a company’s business plans and strategic partnerships. She helps build critical alliances by introducing and integrating a company’s health offerings throughout her extensive network of hospitals, academic institutions, and health providers both within the United States and Canada.
Product Development
Do you have a mobile or wearable health technology company, behavior change program, or employee mental healthcare benefit program? Dr. Kolzet provides leadership, clinical expertise and professional guidance to companies like yours. She can collaborate with and educate your product development and operations teams as to the needs of patients, researchers, and providers in the behavioral and mental health spaces, including patient needs, industry trends, evidence-based treatments, clinically validated innovative technology approaches, provider quality processes, and other standards of care.
Integrating innovative technology into behavioral health settings
We are currently witnessing the expedient rise of novel consumer-driven behavioral health technologies. Dr. Kolzet has stayed at the forefront of this trend by working, consulting, and liaising with industry leaders. Whether you have an original wearable device, innovative software program, or unique mobile technology, Dr. Kolzet will leverage her extensive experience, large-scale network, and clinical expertise to consult with your team. She will provide expert clinical advice and information about behavioral health trends, so as to help you more effectively integrate your technology into a behavioral health setting.
Clinical Lead & Supervision
With her years of experience as a clinical supervisor, teacher, and mentor, Dr. Kolzet can provide your behavioral health team with indispensable leadership, management, care coordination, supervision and professional guidance. She will help develop and expand the clinical skill throughout your organization through the application of the latest findings in behavioral science.
Speaking Work
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy & General Mental Health
Itching to learn more about a certain mental/behavioral health issue? Are you curious about the evidence-based benefits of cognitive behavioral therapy? Are you looking to improve your employees’ mental health? Dr. Kolzet presents on all of these topics and more. Utilizing her years of experience as a clinical health psychologist, supervisor, and consultant, Dr. Kolzet can answer your specific questions and provide you with the latest clinical science on varying topics related to mental and behavioral health, cognitive behavioral therapy and employee wellbeing.
Evolving Landscape of Mental Health Treatment
Hello new world! What are digital therapeutics anyway? How will current treatments change in the face of modern developments? How can we most effectively integrate digitized treatments and clinical practice? We are in the midst of witnessing the rapid digitalization, modernization, and evolution of mental health treatment which increased tenfold during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Kolzet is fervently tuned in to these changes and has stayed in the mix by liaising and collaborating with companies and individuals at the forefront of digital therapeutics. She can leverage her clinical experience, industry know-how, and extensive network to teach your team about innovation and trends in mental healthcare and cross-functional collaborations, all the while maintaining a focus on patient care and clinical best-practices. You will leave this training with a better understanding of how we can marry the old and new mental healthcare worlds while maintaining quality provider processes, technological development and exceptional patient care.
Grand
Rounds
Is your hospital looking for a cutting edge presentation on sleep-disorders, digital therapeutics, behavioral health trends and/or health psychology? Dr. Kolzet has presented at Grand Rounds for multiple large scale medical institutions and enjoys speaking in this capacity. She can present on a myriad of topics related to depression, anxiety, insomnia and sleep disorders, self-esteem and confidence, sexual concerns, mood, the intersection between physical and mental health, diabetes, weight management, advances in the field of mental health, and the evolving landscape of digital therapeutics.
Sleep
Talks
Below are some recent presentations Dr. Kolzet gave on insomnia, other sleep disorders and the interaction between sleep and physical health. Future sleep talks can be tailored to your specific question, need or interest.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I)
As a Behavioral Sleep Medicine Specialist, Dr. Kolzet is uniquely positioned to provide cutting edge instruction on CBT-I, the number one recommended non-medicinal treatment for insomnia by the American College of Physicians. Whether you are a small private practice, a digital therapeutics startup, or a large hospital system, Dr. Kolzet can teach you and your team about the evidenced-based behavioral science behind CBT-I. Presentation topics include the ways in which CBT-I can help patients change how they perceive sleep and their symptoms, implement relaxation techniques and mindfulness practices, develop good sleep hygiene, practice positive sleep habits, and improve their sleep quality, mood and overall life satisfaction.
SLEEP & CANCER
Sleep issues and cancer are two ubiquitous health concerns. Are you curious about the connection between the two? Dr. Kolzet can provide education about how to work with patients living with the realities of cancer and how those realities can impact both their mental health and sleep. She will explain what we can do about fatigue and sleep disorders in chronically ill patients as well as how it can be understood, treated and managed for all types of patients. Further, she can speak about the strengths and weaknesses in the current treatment landscape for cancer patients with sleep issues.
sleep & heart health
Insomnia and other sleep issues have been linked to cardiovascular disease and high blood pressure. Sleep is thus critically important for reducing risk of cardiovascular disease. As a health psychologist, Dr. Kolzet is uniquely positioned to comment on the interaction between sleep and heart health and provide sleep-related cardiovascular prevention updates to clinicians. She presents the latest clinical science on the diagnosis and evidence-based treatment of insomnia and how they can help patients who are either at risk for, or living with, cardiovascular disease.
