Transforming Mental Health for Families

April Koh is the CEO and Co-founder of Spring Health, a comprehensive mental health benefit for employers. Spring Health is currently valued at more than $2B, and April was recently recognized by Forbes as the youngest woman to run a unicorn company. She has received honors from the American Psychiatric Association and has been featured in Crain's, Wall Street Journal, and National Quality Forum. She was named Forbes 30 Under 30 2018, a Goldman Sachs 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs in 2019, World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, and is a Yale Entrepreneurial Institute fellow.

DeDe is a lifelong public servant and a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor in Texas. Professionally, she has served a variety of community organizations including Habitat for Humanity as an AmeriCorps VISTA, and the Dallas County MHMR. Additionally, she provided inpatient and residential treatment for psychiatric and criminal justice populations. As a clinician, she helped children and families navigate mental health challenges and build their lives after a mental health crisis. Her clinical specialties are Trauma focused-CBT, DBT, parent training, and crisis intervention.

In addition to her career as a mental health professional, she is a community activist and public speaker focused on mental health, voting rights, and criminal justice reform. She is the co-founder of an affordable housing organization in Dallas (Neighbors for More Neighbors Dallas).

DeDe is currently a Director of Clinical Partnerships at Spring Health, having also served as Associate Chief of Staff, as well as a Clinical Manager and Care Navigator on Spring Health’s Care Team.

Kim Muench is a Jai Institute for Parenting Certified Conscious Parenting Coach who specializes in working with mothers of adolescents (ages 10+). Knowing moms are the emotional barometer in their families, Kim is passionate about educating, supporting and encouraging her clients to raise their children with intention and guidance rather than fear and control. Kim’s three plus decades raising five children and years of coaching other parents empowers her to lead her clients with compassion and without judgment into healthier, happier, more functional relationships.

Kim works under the umbrella title of Becoming Me While Raising You – a mother’s journey to herself. This title includes a #1 New Release in Parenting/Adult Child Relationships available on Amazon, a digital t.v. which can be found on her YouTube channel, and a parent coaching program she leads moms through 1:1 and in small groups.

You can find out more about her mission and services at www.reallifeparentguide.com. Kim appears regularly on television news, radio, and podcasts on topics related to conscious parenting.

Travis Henderson enjoys giving back to his community as not only a volunteer firefighter but also as a City Council member. Like a lot of young people, joining the Fire Department had been a dream of his. In 2016 that dream came true when he joined the Dayton, MN Fire Department. Interested in other avenues to give back to the community, Travis was elected to City Council in 2020 and is currently serving a 4-year term.

When not responding to emergency calls or serving on the Council, Travis works as a full-time maintenance mechanic at the General Mills Fridley, MN oat flour plant. His role there is to keep the plant functional, on the repair and rebuild side of the operation. He enjoys understanding the ‘why’ and developing inventive and functional ways to repair and rebuild various parts of the process system.

Travis is a devoted family man to his wife, Stephanie, and four children ranging in age from two to 14 years old. In his free time, Travis enjoys taking motorcycle trips with his wife on their Harley, riding the trails in his off-road vehicle, and various outdoor activities. Most days he can be found in his garage tinkering or working on a never-ending list of home improvement projects.

Dan is a licensed clinician with over 12 years of behavioral health experience, primarily in direct clinical practice (INPT Psychiatric setting). As Senior Director of Clinical Partnerships at Spring Health, Dan consults with existing and prospective partner organizations on their specific goals around supporting employee emotional well-being. He also develops and delivers training modules, and supports Spring’s clinical programming strategy.

Dan has a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and a Masters Degree in Social Work, both from the University of Michigan.

Vanessa De Leon (she/her/hers, 1st generation Filipino-American) is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, Registered Dance Movement Therapist, and Registered Yoga Teacher with a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology. Her clinical history includes working with people with developmental disabilities, children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, and adults with posttraumatic stress disorder, sexual trauma, severe mental illnesses, chronic homelessness, eating disorders, and other mental health symptoms.

Throughout all of her clinical experiences, Vanessa had always empowered the people she worked with through a model of survivorship rather than prey victim to circumstance. Through a strengths-based approach with an emphasis on the body-mind connection and the power of community, Vanessa firmly believes that healing is not only generated but sustained for a long period of time.

Tou Ger Lee is an International Coaches Federation (ICF) Accredited Coach focused on personal transformation. He supports highly ambitious individuals and organizations to become even better versions of who they already are in order to accomplish their goals in a way that not only leads to success, but fulfillment as well.

Having trained through one of the finest coaches training programs in the world, Accomplishment Coaching, Tou Ger’s approach is one that provides both profound insight and practical action steps, because insight + action = transformation.

Dr. Adam Chekroud is President and Co-founder of Spring Health, a mental health company based in New York City, and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University. His research seeks to improve treatment outcomes in mental health, and has been featured in the Lancet, JAMA Psychiatry, Lancet Psychiatry, and PNAS, and covered in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, BBC, CNN, and NPR.