Get to Know: Director of Clinical Services - Coral Shores Behavioral Health

As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Amanda Welsh has over nine years of experience, having worked in acute inpatient psychiatry and emergency department settings. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Worcester State University and a master’s degree in Social Work from Rhode Island College. Early in her career, she discovered a passion for acute mental health. Amanda began practicing as a social worker on inpatient units and worked up to leadership positions having oversight of clinicians and operations while still providing direct patient care. She is skilled in risk assessment, crisis intervention, and bringing together the whole treatment team to produce positive patient outcomes.

Our mission at Coral Shores Behavioral Health is to become the facility of choice by exceeding the expectations of those we serve by providing exceptional, patient-centered, evidence-based behavioral health care.
Our vision is to transform the behavioral health care experience through a culture of caring, quality, innovation and service excellence. We want to be recognized by employees, physicians, patients and the community as a top place to work, practice medicine and receive behavioral healthcare. We are already known as active community members, embodying an organization of people working together to do the right thing every day to improve the mental health and well-being of those we serve.
In the pursuit of this vision, the actions of leadership, staff and physicians are guided by the values of integrity, service excellence, teamwork, collaboration and compassion.  We look forward to bringing those values to everything we do to help you get well.