Telemental Health

1st Wednesdays, 1 pm EDT

291 Members




The Telemental Health Special Interest Group includes administrators, clinicians, and information technology professionals. Our goal is to enhance and support the use of technology in the delivery of mental health services.

Our mission is to advance telemental health through collaboration, education and advocacy, and our vision is to create a mentally healthy world. Our purpose is to expand equitable, quality mental health treatment-anywhere, anytime, any way.

Core Values

  • Collaborate with other ATA SIGs/organizations to optimize efforts
  • Innovate to address specific measurable problems related to mental health
  • Advocate for legislation and policy to eliminate barriers and to advance the effective use of telemental health
  • Educate by sharing best practices and learnings to all those interested in telemental health
  • Improve outcomes, ease access and lower costs.

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Leadership


Matt Mishkind, PhD, SHRM-SCP
Co-Chair

Deputy Director, and Director of Operations for Military and Veteran Programs
Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Depression Center
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus School of Medicine

Aurora, Colorado



Michelle Turner
Co-Chair

Vice President, Clinical Talent and Delivery

Hazel Health



Olivia Boyce
Immediate Past Chair

Vice President
Array Behavioral Care

Phone: (770) 713-4161
Email: olivia.boyce@arraybc.com

Athens, GA






The Telemental Health SIG has sub-groups working on the following topics:

  • Updating the Telemental Health Best Practices Guidelines
  • Telemental Health Educational Planning Team
  • Telemental Health Prescribing via Telehealth (Ryan Haight Special Registration, SUD/OUD Treatment etc)
  • Data-Driven Value Proposition for Telehealth





Community Resources

This document represents a collaboration between the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the ATA to provide a single guide on best practices in clinical videoconferencing in mental health.




This document provides a clinical guideline for the delivery of child and adolescent mental health and behavioral services by a licensed health care provider through real time videoconferencing.