Leadership

Kera Miller has worked in the field of mental health since 1998 and has been a clinician since 2005. She has worked with adolescents and young adults in every level of care including residential, inpatient, day treatment, and outpatient/community-based settings.

Previous to her current role, Kera built and served as the Executive Director of a highly esteemed residential treatment center for teens in Colorado designed to help teens heal from trauma.

In addition, Kera grew her skills over 14 years working with a nationally recognized Family Support Program as a direct care mentor, then became the Regional Director of the program, and then inevitably, the National Clinical Director of that program. Kera has helped thousands of families.

Kera’s passion for helping others led her to work as a counselor for several years with a hospice and a case manager for the Colorado Chapter of the National MS Society.

Kera’s natural leadership and drive for teamwork has been demonstrated through all of these positions, but also on the court as an Assistant Coach for women’s basketball at a Division II University.

Kera’s philosophy in working with young people is based in recognition of the basic goodness within every individual; believing that individuals do the best they can with what they know, what they have available to them, and what their circumstances are. Effective therapy includes building a relationship, involving the family unit, and seeking to understand the motivation for growth and change, as well as the thoughts and feelings that may impede that growth.

Kera is originally from Iowa and is a vociferous Iowa Hawkeyes fan.

Kendall has 20+ years experience working with at-risk teenage boys, with a variety of emotional, behavioral, neurological and learning needs at a therapeutic day school in southern Vermont.

He values the learning that happens across the entire Shortridge program, whether in the classroom, the wilderness, therapeutic groups or on the sports field. He does his best to provide a variety of experiences throughout the day and take advantage of the teachable moments that arise. The relationship-building that happen on the basketball court, the ski mountain or sitting around the kitchen table playing board games, helps Kendall and his students work together when more challenging behavioral or emotional issues arise.

Kendall recently returned home to New Hampshire with his wife and twin daughters, from a previous home in Vermont where he lived for 20 years. He holds a deep love of early American history, especially that of New Hampshire and Vermont, and is an avid metal detectorist. You can find Kendall in his free time, searching for relics and artifacts from the colonial past.

As an attorney he realized early on that his work often intersected with those who may be in a behavioral health crisis. His own personal journey of [family] recovery began in his adolescence and through this, he developed a passion for the behavioral health field. With a personal investment and a stark need in the community for access to care, Rudy dedicated his career path to filling this void.

Since his formative years as an attorney, Rudy has sought out opportunity to learn and grow in the recovery industry; he has worked as a certified interventionist, an attorney, an advocate, a case manager, and a clinical outreach director, amongst various volunteer positions. Through advising on intervention and treatment planning for thousands of clients and their families nationwide, Rudy has visited, evaluated, and assisted in developing of hundreds of treatment programs across countless miles and diagnoses.

Through his own efforts to increase accessibility to treatment and recovery, Rudy maintains relationships with organizations and practitioners globally. In his own investment in accessibility and community service he has co-founded a nonprofit foundation and private organization that are dedicated to serving marginalized populations and expanding access to therapeutic services.

In his free time, you will find Rudy spending time with his son, eating, traveling, hiking, and seeing live music.

With an immense background in education and administration, Tracey has developed a robust presence in Business Development in the New England region of the country.  Tracey has experience in being an Assistant Director, then Head of School for Fusion Academy after 8 years teaching in the public schools in New Jersey.  Working at Yellowbrick has allowed her to grow her outreach potential and develop deeper skills in admissions and financial dispositions with families and clients.  Her compassion for guiding clients to the right care shows through her impeccable communication skills and empathy for the journey through mental health challenges.  Odyssey Behavioral Healthcare brought her to the New England territory where Tracey continued to blossom in the industry, creating collaborative and fruitful clinical partnerships.  Tracey lives in Rhode Island with her son and enjoys every moment being a mother, loves music, cooking, being in nature, animals, and good movies.

Shannon received her Bachelor and Master degrees at Franklin Pierce University and has spent most of her career in Office Management and Accounting.  She grew up in New Hampshire but has lived in the Mad River Valley of VT and on Cape Cod and is back in Central New Hampshire.

Shannon lives with her boyfriend and cats where she loves to spend time outdoors in her garden, running, hiking and enjoying the changing seasons.

Born and raised in Connecticut, Jesse spent decades with the Manchester, CT, Recreation Department, beginning as an apprentice and working his way up to program director of after-school programs grades K through 5. He also taught skateboard lessons and worked with special needs children. Jesse is a mechanic who began working on his own cars, and then continued professionally working on a wide range of vehicles from race cars to recreational vehicles. He has also painted professionally, anything from advertising signs to fine cabinet work. Jesse lives in Alton, enjoys spending time with his children, and being outdoors.