Lori Reynolds, LISW

Lori Reynolds, LISW, has been a provider for Mental Health services since graduating with an MSW from the University of Iowa in 1993. She was independently licensed in 1995. For the first 14 years of her career she worked in Community Mental Health as a psychotherapist, first with children and adolescents before changing to strictly adult care in 2003. Lori has been employed by VA-Central Iowa Health Care System since August of 2007. She originally provided social work services in an acute inpatient psychiatric setting. She moved to providing outpatient psychotherapy in 2013. Currently she holds the position of Community Engagement and Partnership Coordinator. This position was created because every day we lose 20 Veterans and Service Members to suicide. Of the 20 only 6 are involved in VA care. The VA is taking a public health approach to suicide prevention in an effort to reduce not only suicide in Veterans but non veterans as well. As Education is an important part of her mission she is a trainer for VA SAVE, CALM, Adult Mental Health First Aid, Veterans in Crisis: Mental Health and Suicide Prevention as well as What We think Matters.