Joseph De Vico

Psychotherapist. Advocate. LPS Expert. Your loved one is severely mentally ill but cannot or will not accept treatment.  Your local public mental health system is staffed by dedicated professionals, but they cannot always deliver the care and treatment your loved one requires because time, money, and resources are scarce.  Your loved one is suffering.  You are exhausted from trying again and again to make the system understand who your loved one really is: their humanity, their history, and their potential.   You know that stabilization and recovery are challenging under the best of circumstances, but just getting the system’s attention should be so much easier than it is.  It feels like none of these mental health professionals are even speaking your language. In fact, they aren’t.  But you’re about to become fluent in theirs. What if one person could bring together you and your loved one, police and PERT, psychiatrists and hospitals, judges and hearing officers, L