Dr. James Huysman, PsyD, LCSW, CAP, CFT is a leading authority, speaker and media expert on caregiver burnout, compassion fatigue and addictions. His 25 year career has been devoted to supporting the “resilience of the human spirit.”

In the 80’s he championed those with addictions and other mental health challenges; in the 90’s he became the “Robin Hood of Talk TV,” creating TV Aftercare™, which provided nearly 7 million dollars of free follow up care for guests from talk, court and reality television shows. Now he has dedicated his professional life to the support and empowerment of caregivers around the world. Today, his focus and passionate commitment are aimed at advocating for Family First-Responders™, his term for family and professional caregivers alike.

Dr. Jamie’s inspirational outreach touches an international audience with motivational movies, affirmations, articles and quotations for Boomers, Zoomers and caregivers worldwide. This information is yours for the asking by signing up for his newsletter on this page!

Dr. J maintains an active speaking and clinical training schedule to keep his personal connection with caregivers and peers vibrant, staying current with their issues and trends across the country. His Psychology Today™ blog is entitled “Life in the Recovery Room” and deals with cutting edge caregiver topics from the world of compassion fatigue and burnout to the new pressing issues of long term care, addictions and the emotional challenges facing our Boomer and seniors’ world.

Dr. Jamie is a frequent article contributor to a variety of aging, wellness and recovery websites and publications. He and his clinical team also offer wellness retreats and trainings for corporations, organizations and caregivers of all kinds throughout North America.

The acclaimed caregiving book Take Your Oxygen First: Protecting Your Health and Happiness While Caring for a Loved One with Memory Loss (LaChance Publishing, 2009) was a collaborative effort with his geriatrician expert and friend Dr. Rosemary Laird and Radio/TV personality Leeza Gibbons. Other works of note include Jamie’s contributions to The Healing Project’s Voices of Caregiving and Voices of Alcoholism.

He created the Leeza’s Place™ program, a psycho-social, community drop in model providing free services and support for family caregivers on behalf of the Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation, which he co-founded in 2002. It represented a new level of direct service in the growing field of aging care. Beginning in 2003, he oversaw the development and opening of eight separately funded locations around the country. He also pioneered the concept of an American tele-communication platform called the Caregiver Tele-Connection™ while initiating vital long term research, partnering with experts from around the world.

Dr. Jamie continues to serve as an adjunct professor at Florida International University, clinically overseeing doctoral students throughout South Florida. Additionally, he consults to organizations who seek innovative boomer and senior program development and maintains a private practice with locations in Hollywood and Miami, Florida.

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