Michelle Hemken is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist; her undergraduate degree is from UW-LaCrosse and she earned her graduate degree from Edgewood College. Michelle has experience working with individuals across the life span, couples, parents, and families. She is an LGBTQ+ affirming therapist as well as kink and poly friendly. She welcomes individuals to bring their […]
Vivent Health is expanding services in the Austin, Texas Area with the merger of Austin Harm Reduction Coalition. Austin Harm Reduction Coalition is an organization that promotes safer injection strategies, educates on opioid overdose prevention and provides sterile supplies to people who inject drugs. It has been an active partner in providing judgement-free care and […]
LaMara comes to Vivent Health with several years of experience working in community mental health and substance use services in the St. Louis region, including both direct clinical care and oversight of teams working with persons with severe/persistent mental illness and/or with substance use challenges. She also has connections with the Missouri Department of Mental […]
The end of the current administration and its seemingly unending attacks on the civil rights of all Americans cannot come soon enough. The recently announced plans by the administration to allow government-funded agencies to withhold services from LGBT individuals is nothing more than systemic, institutional oppression. It will harm our nation’s ability to end the […]
Dr. Scott grew up in Durham, Connecticut and completed her undergraduate studies in Boston at Tufts University. She completed her medical school at Midwestern University in Chicago before completing her family medicine residency in 1998 at Presbyterian St Luke’s Hospital here in Denver. Dr. Scott blends medicine, compassion and humor and 25 years of family […]
Today we have witnessed another unfortunate and unacceptable miscarriage of justice by the public institutions that are supposed to protect and ensure liberty and justice for all of us. In the days that followed last August’s shooting of Jacob Blake — while our offices and clinics were closed due to damage sustained during the unrest […]
Scott and Vivent Health will enhance and expand services for people at risk for and living with HIV. Vivent Health is pleased to announce that today Dr. Mia Scott joins our HIV Medical Home team to expand access to HIV and PrEP services to people with and at-risk for HIV. Vivent Health is a nationally […]
December 1st is World AIDS Day – our annual commemoration of the HIV pandemic, the deadliest public health crisis of the past 40 years. More than 75 million people have contracted HIV and the more than 36 million deaths from it have shattered the lives of individuals, families and communities across the globe. The lessons […]
Vivent Health is expanding services in the Denver, Colo. area with the merger of Liver Health Connection on November 30. The organization promotes liver health, educates, and supports and advocates on behalf of those affected by liver diseases. It has been an active partner in the fight against HIV and hepatitis C, with the goal […]
Today marks the culmination of Transgender Awareness Week, and I encourage everyone to pause and reflect as we remember the far too many transgender lives we have lost to violence. This year, more than 30 people have been killed because of transphobia in the United States – a staggering number that should force all of […]