THE MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS IS REAL.
AND THE SYSTEMS BUILT TO SOLVE ARE FALLING SHORT.
AND THE EVIDENCE IS EVERYWHERE.
→ Clinicians are burning out.
→ Clients are cycling through treatment.
→ Leadership is paralyzed .
→ Families are overwhelmed.
What if the system itself can change?
The behavioral health system was built in 1947 with a fundamental flaw. Present day, compassionate people are still churning through this deeply broken system. Our work is designed to close that gapHow to work with us?
Although we offer four different paths, each one will lead you back to the same interconnected system.
Find yours.
PATH 1 — The Research Path
For academics, researchers, and policy minds
Thirty years of applied practice culminating in doctoral research that names what the field has been missing. The theoretical foundation for why the system keeps failing, and what it would actually take to fix it.
PATH 4 | The Community Path
For families, practitioners, and underserved communities
The Elephant and Willow Project our 501(c)(3) exists because we believe healing should never be a privilege. Trauma prevention education, community building, and accessible frameworks for the people the system has most consistently failed.
PATH 2 | The Consulting Path
For CMH leaders, healthcare executives, and nonprofit directors
A proprietary five-layer organizational study that measures whether your system is creating the conditions for healing, or perpetuating the conditions that produced the wound. This is where the work becomes actionable.
PATH 3 — The Advocacy Path
For policy makers, coalition builders, and systems change agents
The mental health system is not underfunded. It is structurally misaligned. The work here is building the coalition for a mandated trauma framework, the policy change that fixes the outermost layer everything else depends on.
We work with community Leaders ready to change how healing happens.
we’re not pathologizing people.
we’re humanizing the system.
from trauma-informed to trauma-preventive
HEALTHY SYSTEMS
CREATE HEALTHY OUTCOMES.
Trusted by healthcare and community health leaders worldwide.
About
Who is Jodee Gibson?
From teen mom to PhD…
Jodee Gibson has spent 30 years studying the mental health system from every angle it is possible to occupy, as a child it failed, as a mother watching it fail her daughter, a practitioner inside it rebuilding it, and a researcher who proved why it keeps failing. She now functions as a consultant building the alternative.
This is not academic expertise.
This is a life that became a body of work.
She is the founder of Human Behavior Architects™ The Elephant & Willow Project, a 501(c)(3) committed to the idea that affordability should not preclude healing.