Æura Æra’s Strategy and the U.S. Behavioral Healthcare Crisis

Æura Æra Alliance is the legislative and systems-facing branch our wellness work, focused on the evolution of behavioral health care and its adjacent institutions, particularly the problem-solving courts and veteran services.

Æura Ara champions the inclusion of coaches as paraprofessionals within an OT-informed model, creating new access points for function-forward care through sustainable infrastructure to support the over-extended systems that once served and will again serve us as intended.

Occupational Therapy is the wellspring.

Together we can HEAL healthcare.

Therapy alone was never designed to help us practice life; it was designed to engage the mind. What we need now is for occupational therapy to be widely available, clearly understood, and rightfully regarded as essential.

👉 BUT WAIT…🖱🔗 What exactly is OT again?

What we are seeing:

Behavioral healthcare treatment access and quality is suffering.

Overextended work force. Providers are burned out, and they have been saying so for some time. Passionate, helpful professionals are being not-so-inadvertently exploited.
Ideals v. Execution. There is a glaring discrepancy between individualized care ideals and the systemic capacity necessary for proper delivery. Clinicians commonly carry non-compliant caseloads as a directive.
The crisis of backlog. Patients are cycling through providers, struggling to integrate treatment ideals into their daily lives, then opting to repeat the process. This is an unnecessary display of resiliency, evidence of a significant differential in success rates when comparing patient and provider reporting.
Unassigned liability. Astronomical waitlists carry implied risk.

What this means:

The underserved population is everyone.
The mental healthcare process is taxing for patient and provider alike.
We are entrenched in a behavioral healthcare crisis in America.
The utilization of public funding channels needs revamping. Minimizing revolution and opting for renovation is always the best way to implement change.
What were once excellent access points of care are simply not sufficient anymore.

Æ ALLIANCE bridges occupational therapy principles, behavioral health standards, and already-existing channels of service and funding.

How it Works

—A licensed Occupational Therapist is qualified to head a regulation-compliant practice that offers:

Direct therapeutic services tailored to PTSD, ASD, SUD, TBIs, “neurodivergence”, reintegration and change management, and other function-forward treatment focuses. OT provides clients deserved attention and clinicians the luxury of flexibility in delivery format.
Supervision for life coaches first as technicians and then as paraprofessionals within the clinical framework. We have created a web of service professionals branching out from the respective licensed professional per industry. OT remains largely untouched. *An example to this point can be seen in SUD treatment operations: we start with the licensed professionals and branch off from those credentials to allow greater scope and depth of care while remaining in compliance. psychiatrist—psychologist—therapist—counselor—CADC/bachelors level counseling—peer supports—technicians.* Utilizing OT in a similar fashion will allow for many years of usage and further development.
Custom court-aligned programs that blend functional wellness with behavioral accountability enables channels of care to flow and grow. SCAs, MA, and BH funding will intersect seamlessly. Increased funding is increased access.

We are confident that relatively little new structure or regulation is demanded by the proposed increase in OT services, with the proper level of care for an immediate start being outpatient.

While we press on for this ultimate goal of equitable reform, Aeura Aera offers direct support for individuals and institutions suffering strain.

Systemic analysis, stable reform architecture
Program consulting: quality, compliance, collaboration
Group facilitation for all levels of behavioral health care
Educational presentations for students and staff
Motivational speaking, event bookings
Exemplary coaching services in both one on one and parallel formats