How the work is made
The work begins with the source.
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Read the source
Statutes, regulations, agency guidance, payer documents, fee schedules, licensing rules, and primary research.
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Establish what it actually says
Separate the governing rule from agency guidance, payer requirements, research evidence, and our own interpretation.
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Name what remains unanswered
If the available sources do not settle a question, we identify it as unresolved rather than filling the gap with assumption.
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Make the information usable
Translate the source material into guides, checkers, diagrams, comparisons, and practice documents.
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Study what the records cannot tell us
The Observatory asks the operational and workforce questions that administrative records cannot answer.
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Return what we learn
Findings go to respondents first, then into later editions of the public guidance.
What lives here
Practice guides
Free, ungated documents built around bounded questions clinicians and practices actually face. The guides.
The reading room
The primary and authoritative sources behind every substantive claim, with the date each was last checked. The sources.
The Observatory
Workforce and field research designed to measure what license rosters, enrollment records, claims data, and public documents cannot.
Research studies
Short field studies tied to the questions the guides raise, with findings returned to the people who answered. The studies.
The people behind the work
Co-founded and co-authored.
Elizabeth Teklinski, PhD, LPC, NCC, NPT-C
Co-founder · Chief Operating Officer · Co-author
A counselor, counselor educator, and researcher. She brings the behavioral health side of the work: clinical practice, licensure and supervision rules, the workforce questions the Observatory studies, and the editorial discipline of saying only what a source supports.
Andrew Teklinski, MD, FACC
Co-founder · Chief Medical Officer · Co-author
A physician. He brings the medical side of the work: how a practice actually runs, what a treating provider carries, how clinical systems and documentation behave in real settings, and what integration asks of the medical team.
The Center’s publications are co-authored from both sides of integrated care: behavioral health and medicine.
The Center asks what the records cannot answer
- A license roster can count eligible supervisors.
- It cannot count available supervision.
- An enrollment record can show that participation occurred.
- It cannot show the staff time and repeated work required to get there.
- A payer policy can describe Collaborative Care.
- It cannot tell us whether practices can actually staff and sustain it.
Those missing pieces become research questions.
One body of work, different jobs
- Center for Integrative Neuroscience
- Research, public education, and practice guidance.
- Behavioral Health Workforce Observatory
- Workforce data and field research within the Center.
- Integral Neuroscience Initiative
- A separate nonprofit organization, for public-interest and policy work.
- Kedge
- A separate company, for individualized implementation and regulatory intelligence.
- Michigan Mental Health Counselors Association
- A separate association. A board seat, not a channel.
Elizabeth sits on the MMHCA board and answers Michigan counselors’ questions there for free, as a board member. That is association service and it stays association service. Its members are not a mailing list, its data never reaches this site or Kedge, and no question answered there is a route to anything paid. What the questions teach is which guide to write next. That is the whole of the benefit, and it is the line.
The record should be correctable.
The Center dates its source checks, identifies the questions that remain unresolved, and corrects published guidance when the underlying evidence changes or an error is found. If you find one, tell us, and we will fix it and say that we did.