Dynamic Solutions
Goldsmith Consulting
About me
Professional Certifications
• Masters Degree in Social Work (M.S.W.) Portland State University School of Social Work
• Licensed
Clinical Social Worker (#370), State of Oregon, since 1980
• Board
Certified Diplomate Emeritus (#023855)
• American Board of Examiners in Clinical
Social Work,
BCD since 1989
• Registered
Counselor, State of Washington (RC 60082693)
Susie has spent over 30 years as an Oregon licensed clinical social worker and has practice primarily in the field of aging with an emphasis on working with private clients fiduciaries and attorneys. She received her M.S.W. from Portland State University in 1977 and is an Oregon Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW #0370) and an emeritus Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work (a national credential). She was a Trust Officer at US Bank early in her career; one of two social workers in the nation to be in such a position at the time. She created her position which involved managing special needs trusts and overseeing elderly trust customers' health care, residential and psycho-social needs related to their financial management. This experience gave her a strong background in business and finance in addition to her strong inclination towards advocacy for those without a voice. Now there is an association of thousands called the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers (GCM) and many members provide fiduciaries such as bank trust department services just like Susie provided in 1979. She started publishing articles in the field in 1980.
Susie started her first private geriatric care management company in 1985 and opened a second firm, Health Access, inc. in 1989. Health Access used an M.S.W./R.N. interdisciplinary approach to care management. Health Access also provided Eldercare Employee Assistance services to one of the larger employers in Oregon. Because of her strong legal/financial management background, Health Access and all her subsequent consultation has focused on clients of attorneys and fiduciaries such as bank trust departments, as well as working with families and their aging parents. She has constructed Cost of Care analysis to attorneys for their elder or disabled clients, including estimates for personal injury litigation. Her work has included court testimony.
Susie had been a member of the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers (GCM) and is now an emeritus member. She served as a Director on its Board for four years and on the Western Regional Board for eight years. She edited the national GCM newsletter, Inside GCM, for seven years. She has been a part of GCM's National mentorship program since 1989 and has mentored and coached many geriatric care managers across the nation. She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, since 1979.
Susie bought Boreas Bed and Breakfast Inn in June of 1996 and with her partner, Bill Verner, has built it into on of the Northwest's top Inns, featured prominently in newspapers, magazines, guidebooks and online. Awards in the last year include "Top Five Best B&B'" in 2009 in King 5 TV's Best Northwest Getaways and 2010 "Most Romantic Getaway" and "Coziest Inn" in "Best of the Discovery" Coast's Reader's Survey. Susie sold Health Access in 1998 and has consulted and coached in the field of long term care, health care advocacy and has had a small therapy practice in Ilwaco, Washington. In her career, Susie has guest lectured and presented at national and regional conferences too numerous to mention, but including GCM, NASW, Aging Society of America and the PSU School of Social Work, her alma mater.
The topics she is asked to address include the trailblazing work she has done with geriatric and long-term care management and advocacy with fiduciaries and attorneys. She has lectured on marketing and public relations for care management services, the concept of mentorship and her interdisciplinary team approach to care management. She has focused many of her lectures on business set-up for health care and mental health professionals and has most enjoyed working with entrepreneurial health care professionals, although she has advised business owners in a variety of settings that are not health-care related.
Susie loves to coach and advise clients in all occupations and social settings about finding solutions for the problems affecting their lives including career choices, identifying resources that will be helpful, defining of personal and professional goals and behavioral approaches to overcoming the stumbling blocks that interfere with making decisions and moving forward. Always positive in her approach, whether discussing health care, seeking options for individuals and families, or in therapy, Susie bases her practice on performance (both hers and her clients') and positive solutions to complex problems.
Susie started her first private geriatric care management company in 1985 and opened a second firm, Health Access, inc. in 1989. Health Access used an M.S.W./R.N. interdisciplinary approach to care management. Health Access also provided Eldercare Employee Assistance services to one of the larger employers in Oregon. Because of her strong legal/financial management background, Health Access and all her subsequent consultation has focused on clients of attorneys and fiduciaries such as bank trust departments, as well as working with families and their aging parents. She has constructed Cost of Care analysis to attorneys for their elder or disabled clients, including estimates for personal injury litigation. Her work has included court testimony.
Susie had been a member of the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers (GCM) and is now an emeritus member. She served as a Director on its Board for four years and on the Western Regional Board for eight years. She edited the national GCM newsletter, Inside GCM, for seven years. She has been a part of GCM's National mentorship program since 1989 and has mentored and coached many geriatric care managers across the nation. She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, since 1979.
Susie bought Boreas Bed and Breakfast Inn in June of 1996 and with her partner, Bill Verner, has built it into on of the Northwest's top Inns, featured prominently in newspapers, magazines, guidebooks and online. Awards in the last year include "Top Five Best B&B'" in 2009 in King 5 TV's Best Northwest Getaways and 2010 "Most Romantic Getaway" and "Coziest Inn" in "Best of the Discovery" Coast's Reader's Survey. Susie sold Health Access in 1998 and has consulted and coached in the field of long term care, health care advocacy and has had a small therapy practice in Ilwaco, Washington. In her career, Susie has guest lectured and presented at national and regional conferences too numerous to mention, but including GCM, NASW, Aging Society of America and the PSU School of Social Work, her alma mater.
The topics she is asked to address include the trailblazing work she has done with geriatric and long-term care management and advocacy with fiduciaries and attorneys. She has lectured on marketing and public relations for care management services, the concept of mentorship and her interdisciplinary team approach to care management. She has focused many of her lectures on business set-up for health care and mental health professionals and has most enjoyed working with entrepreneurial health care professionals, although she has advised business owners in a variety of settings that are not health-care related.
Susie loves to coach and advise clients in all occupations and social settings about finding solutions for the problems affecting their lives including career choices, identifying resources that will be helpful, defining of personal and professional goals and behavioral approaches to overcoming the stumbling blocks that interfere with making decisions and moving forward. Always positive in her approach, whether discussing health care, seeking options for individuals and families, or in therapy, Susie bases her practice on performance (both hers and her clients') and positive solutions to complex problems.
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- Dynamic Solutions / Goldsmith Consulting
- 157 Howerton Way, Suite B, Ilwaco, WA 98624 • on the Port of Ilwaco Waterfront
- P.O. Box 762, Long Beach, WA 98631
- 360.751.2161 office • 360.642.5353 fax
- susie@goldsmithconsulting.org • www.goldsmithconsulting.org
