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Amy Shanahan is the owner of Compass Consulting & Training, LLC, an organization that provides consultation, workshops and trainings. Compass helps individuals, teams & agencies enhance tools for engaging people in the process of change.

Recently Amy also served as the Organizational Development & Consultative Specialist in the Education & Consultative Services at Western Psychiatric Hospital of UPMC (WPH). Drawing on 25 years-experience in addiction medicine, first as a clinician, then supervisor and ultimately administrator, Amy provides evidence-based behavioral health consultation and training to peers, professionals, criminal justice personnel, providers and others. Amy has conducted workshops and delivered presentations across the US and internationally on diverse subject matter including Leadership, Clinical Supervision, Motivational Interviewing (MI), LGBTQAI, Contingency Management & Creative Problem Solving. Amy’s focus on adult learning principles and the use of multi-media has been integral in engaging participants in collaborative learning initiatives and has facilitated the transfer and adoption by participants of the myriad skills necessary to succeed in the behavioral field. Amy has been a member of the international Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers since 2016.

Prior to her current role, Amy was the Director of Addiction Medicine for WPH, where she launched quality improvement initiatives and managed prevention & intervention programs and treatment clinics specializing in co-occurring substance use and psychiatric disorders. Before working for WPH, Amy served as a Quality Improvement Director at Pyramid Healthcare; a Training Director for the Addiction Technology Transfer Center; and a Program Director at Horizons Health Services.