Health & Wellness
Susan Gillpatrick, Centerstone Crisis Management Specialist, offers advice and education on a variety of current health-related topics and trends from Centerstone's Wellness Program. To watch a sampling of Susan's television appearances, check out the videos in our Multimedia section.
To inquire about Centerstone's Wellness Program, you can call Susan Gillpatrick at 615.460.4445 or Mindy Tobin, Director of Marketing and Public Relations for Centerstone of Tennessee at 615.463.6649.
Click here to read Susan's latest article: Keep Your New Year’s Resolution by Controlling your Mood to Control your Food
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About Susan Gillpatrick, MEd, LPC, CTS
Susan Gillpatrick, Centerstone Crisis Management Specialist, primarily works in the field with clients in critical incident response situations, and in Centerstone's wellness trainings and presentations. She is also responsible for planning and implementing marketing and growth strategies for Centerstone's Crisis Management Strategies.
Ms. Gillpatrick is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Trauma Specialist, Certified Workplace Conflict Mediator, and Mental Health Service Provider in the state of Tennessee and a National Certified Counselor. She is also a member the American Counseling Association, the Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists, the Tennessee Mental Health Counseling Association, and the Middle Tennessee Employee Assistance Professionals Association. She is a frequent presenter at local and national conferences, and has had numerous articles published. She received her Master of Education degree in Human Development Counseling from Peabody College at Vanderbilt University.
Susan's Wellness Articles
Set Yourself Up for Success in the New Year: How to Make and Keep Your Resolutions
Preparing for the Holidays: Keep Your Heart and Wallet Full
Avoid Family Feuds this Holiday Season
Six Self Care Strategies for Women
How to Change Your Life: The Courage, the Risks and the Rewards
Don’t Let Anger Rise with the Summer Temperatures
Relationship Success: How to cruise through conflict
A Flood of Emotions: Anniversary Reactions to a Traumatic Event
Three Keys to Recognizing and Understanding Depression
Seven Lessons to Learn from Children
Six Simple Secrets of Great Relationships
How to Stress Less (Not More!)
National Stop Bullying Day: We all have a role to play
Five Principles of Productive People
The Winter Blues: Recognizing Seasonal Affective Disorder
Understanding Thought Disorders
Six Good Habits to Enrich Your Life
Seven Steps to Successful New Year's Resolutions: Redesign Your Lifestyle and Your Resolutions!
Helping a Loved One with Grief and Loss
The ABC’s of Improving Your Memory
How to Handle Family Friction during the Holidays
It’s Never Too Late to Stop Procrastinating
Six Steps to Identifying Addictions: What controls your life?
Every Marriage Is a Fixer-Upper: 7 tools to tune yours up!
Things Every Employer Should Know: Six Warning Signs of Workplace Danger
Seven Ways Couples Add Conflict to Conflict
Five Steps to Reunite a Lost Relationship
The Four Question Relationship Challenge
Love Is Caring, Not Controlling
After the Flood: Coping with Crisis
How to Know When it’s Time to Seek Counseling: 7 Signs for Seeking Help
Spring Clean Your Life: Five Ways to Clear the Clutter!
Spring Clean Your Life: Four Tools from Gardening 101
How to Tame Your Anger and Handle Your Hot Buttons
Shrink Your Stress to Shrink Your Dress: How to get rid of guilt and move toward a healthier you!
The Power of Planning: Six tips to prevent packing on the pounds
How to Eliminate Your ANTs! (Automatic Negative Thoughts)
Eating Emotions: How to manage your mood to manage your food
Seven Sneaky Lies that Limit Weight Loss
Common Relationship Mistakes and How to Fix Them
From Wishes to Reality: How to make and keep your New Year’s resolutions
The Happiest of Holidays! When less is more…
Life Choices: Five ways to make tough decisions
Take Time to Take Vacation: Five Facts about the Benefits of Taking a Break
Four Facts of Functional and Fun Relationships
Choose to Change Your Life for the New Year
Five Ways to Avoid Holiday Hazards
The ABCs of Improving Your Memory
Five Steps to Reunite a Lost Relationship
Seven Ways Couples Add Conflict to Conflict
Shrinking Your Financial Stress:Six Steps for Shrinking Your Stress in a Shrinking Economy
Jealousy: Six Essential Steps to Keep Jealousy from Ruining Your Relationship
Communicating Through Conflict: Four Steps to Handling Difficult Conversations Without Confrontation
Seven Steps to a Successful New Year's Resolution
Five Rules to Follow Before You Make Your Resolutions
Lies Women Believe and the Limitations They Create
How to Know When its Time to Seek Counseling: Seven Signs for Seeking Help
How to Tune Up Your Marriage: Eight Essential Tools of A Successful Relationship
Coping With Crisis: Six Steps for Caring for Yourself in Times of Crisis
How to Have Fun: Six Stress Relievers You Need To Know
How to Get Over Guilt: Seven Essential Steps
Patience: Nine Principles of Practicing Patience
How to Change Your Life: The Courage, The Risks, and The Rewards
How Listening Can Improve Your Life: Do's and Don'ts You Need To Know!
Life Frustrations: Six Steps to Reduce the Stress
The Greatest Gift: Learning to Forgive Yourself
How to Put the Happy Back in the Holidays: Four Questions to Ask to Reduce Your Stress This Year
Loving is Caring Not Controlling: Signs and Solutions in Domestic Violence
Living In Uncertain Times: Coping with the New "Normal"
From Fitness to Family: Six Sins that Can Sabotage Your Goals
Seven Teasers for Food Pleasers
Living Beyond the Losses of Life: Hope & Healing in Recovery
Balancing Your Life: Six Tips to Bringing More Balance into Your Life
The Power of Personal Choice and Control
Spring Clean Your Life: 4 Tools from Gardening 101
Seven Steps to Successful New Years Resolutions
Relationship Success: How to cruise through conflict - 05/25/11
Relationships that thrive are not void of conflict, change and numerous challenges. Relationship success is a daily and conscious effort. Relationships require work! But the rewards are an abundanc...
Overcoming Anxiety - 05/10/11
Do you constantly worry? In today’s dismal economic climate, your anxiety may be at an all time high. Whether you’re watching your retirement savings shrink, fretting about how to pay f...