Nurstead Consulting Services started long before the company itself was formed. Nurstead Consulting Services’ history is one of evolution and growth. Started as a small town private practice, as a writer our founder then created a vanity press publishing company in addition, which had two best sellers. In 2016 Senior Lifestyle Dynamics was formed to design and operate senior depression group treatment in Critical Access Hospitals. In January 2018, Nurstead Consulting Services was officially formed and in August 2018, Nurstead Consulting Services and Senior Lifestyle Dynamics merged. In the continuous process of growth, Nurstead Consulting Services has stayed on the cutting edge by understanding the need to evolve to meet the need of those we serve.
Combing the successful experiences of professionals from various fields Nurstead Consulting Services has become an international consulting firm in core areas; workplace psychology, behavioral health, crisis response, and first responder training.
Workplace psychology includes leadership development, company culture, employee engagement, and team building along with other related items. Our behavioral health section focuses on trainings related to mental health, substance use, contract program design, and evaluation, and in some cases direct service provision of psychoeducational classes and treatment.
Our first responder training focus has trained EMS, Fire, Police, Sheriff, and Corrections personnel. Nurstead has core trainings with emphasis on first responder needs, which include mental health, substance use, de-escalation, crisis communication, crisis negotiation, leadership, self-care and peer support, and more. We also often tailor or develop new trainings based on the needs and requests of the agency and we continually update material to stay up to date with what is bein experienced the first responder community.
Our crisis response services include a full range of services, spanning from crisis intervention training at the basic and advanced level for law enforcement and first responders, design and planning related to mobile crisis response teams, and consulting with agencies to prepare and prevent crises, we also provide direct crisis response services having worked responses to events from loss of an employee to the El Paso and Midland Shootings, and currently manage two mobile crisis teams operating in New Mexico, and we are licensed and trained to respond at every level of crisis.
