Welcome to BLND Health.

We’re here to make therapy work for you, no matter who you are or what you’re going through.

We build our services around you at every step of your journey—all with the intent to help you create a better everyday life.

The traditional, institutional approach to mental health and wellness doesn’t work for everyone

BLND Health began in 2017 by Dr. Brooke Buys, LMSW, PhD. After working at Families & Children Services, and local substance use treatment centers in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Brooke started BLND Health in her car - and quite literally met clients wherever, whenever.

Frustrated by the confusing health care system, Brooke tried many unconventional ways to get mental health care. The path was nonlinear and full of unexpected lessons informed by real client experiences.

The name, BLND, came from a client who made a candle labeled “Brooke’s BLND” at The Kalamazoo Candle Company, and the name stuck.

We continue blending our work with clients one day at a time.

Brooke enjoys mentoring social workers and therapists, openly sharing her mistakes, successes, challenges, and lessons grad school didn’t cover.

Our Philosophy: Person-Centered Care & Treatment Informed Feedback

The goal of Person-Centered Care is to create the necessary conditions for clients to engage in meaningful self-exploration of their feelings, beliefs, behavior, and worldview. We do this to assist clients in their growth process, supporting them to cope with current and future challenges (Carl Rogers, Humanistic Psychologist).

A major key concept of this philosophy is that the attitudes and characteristics of the therapist — and the quality of the client-therapist relationship — are prime determinants of the outcome of the therapeutic process.

We believe that practitioners must have three attributes to create a growth-promoting climate in which individuals can move forward and become capable of becoming their true self:

  1. Congruence (aka, genuineness and realness)

  2. Unconditional positive regard (aka, acceptance and caring)

  3. Accurate empathetic understanding (aka, an ability to deeply grasp the subjective world of another person)

We exist to develop genuine, trusting relationships with our clients.

We embed social work values throughout our communities to promote meaningful, lasting change in mental health care.

We offer compassionate accountability to support each client's growth and responsibility.

We utilize feedback-informed treatment to carefully monitor progress and outcomes WITH TREATMENT INFORMED FEEDBACK.

Meet our Therapists