Alyson Albano, M.S., LMFT, PMH-C, holds the role of Director of Clinical Quality for Discovery Behavioral Health. Serving over 15 years in behavioral healthcare, Alyson has experience in a wide range of levels of care, serving populations including, substance use disorders, eating disorders, gambling disorder, complex trauma, mental health disorders, and perinatal mood, and anxiety disorders. Alyson is a certified perinatal counselor and is certified in complex trauma and Telemental health.
Alyson’s professional focus includes implementation of evidence-based clinical documentation, standardization to achieve value-based care, implementation and tracking of validated instruments to produce clinical outcomes and introducing a suicide prevention best practice framework to strengthen access and delivery of suicide care, promote connectedness, and implement suicide risk mitigation strategies based on patient’s risk level. Additionally, focus has been placed on delivering innovative quality methods through training and documentation by overseeing the Center of Excellence scorecard, an internal tool, used to measure indices of progress throughout the organization, and most recently an opportunity to measure Value-Based Care. In late 2020, Alyson initiated a clinical philosophy, corresponding manual, The Clinician’s Desk Reference, and a supervision framework for Discovery Behavioral Health. This was a collaborative effort and developed with input from expert clinicians from all service lines within the organization.