Guy Strawder is a principal with Revelations Counseling & Consulting with nearly 40 years of operations, policy, and leadership experience within the federal healthcare sector, Military Health System, and support for other Government agencies.
Guy is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist at Revelations Counseling & Consulting in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he applies family systems theory and interventions for individual counseling to treat anxiety, depression, and addictions, and to resolve relational problems in the counseling of families, couples, and adolescents (13+ years and older). He also incorporates complementary interventions from Rational-Emotive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, and Existential Therapy. As a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army with prior combat deployments, Guy frequently counsels military service members, veterans, and their families regarding adjustment disorders, acute stress, post-traumatic stress, and other related mental health issues. Guy also frequently works in co-therapy sessions with his wife, Joanne, to counsel couples and families. Joanne is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and also a practicing therapist at Revelations Counseling & Consulting.
In addition to his current counseling practice, Guy also provides professional consulting to several client organizations in market areas that include: clinical services delivery; mental health counseling services; health information technology; military and veteran family whole-health services; career transition and employment; wounded warrior care and coaching; and strategic planning for one of the country’s largest academic medical centers. His previous commercial sector experience includes assignments as a lead corporate executive for Fortune 500 occupational health services firms and as vice president for a consulting firm in the National Capital Area, where he was responsible for overseeing several Department of War health programs.
Before he retired from the Army in 2006, Guy was the Defense Health Agency’s Director for the TRICARE managed care health plan, and the responsible officer for providing quality, accessible healthcare to 5 million enrolled beneficiaries. From 2001 to 2004, he was the senior military advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, where he assisted in strategic medical planning for Operations ENDURING FREEDOM and IRAQI FREEDOM, interagency planning for the nation’s defense against chemical and biological terrorism, and transforming the Military Health System organizational redesign and the multi-billion dollar performance-based managed care support contracts. Guy served with the 82d Airborne Division and commanded the largest medical company in the XVIII Airborne Corps during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, and was also an operations and intelligence officer for the planning and execution of numerous contingencies, including Operations GOLDEN PHEASANT (Honduras and Nicaragua) and JUST CAUSE (Panama). Due to his diverse experiences in military service, public service, and private sector assignments, he was invited in 2007 to present conceptual solutions to the President’s Commission on the Care of America’s Returning Wounded Warriors—the “Dole-Shalala Commission.”
Mr. Strawder has published and contributed to numerous articles on military medicine in journals such as Joint Forces Quarterly, Proceedings, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and Army Logistician. He is the recipient of three Telly awards and an international videographer award for his work on training and education films sponsored by the Department of War. His military decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Bronze Star, the Meritorious Service Medal (3), the Southwest Asian Service Medal (2), the Multinational Force and Observer’s Medal, and several other campaign medals. He has also earned the Senior Parachutist Badge, the Expert Field Medical Badge, and the Air Assault Badge.
Guy has earned a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy from Liberty University, and both a Master of Healthcare Administration and meeting all graduate requirements for a Master of Science in Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a resident graduate of the US Army Command and General Staff College, a certified medical laboratory scientist with the American Society of Clinical Pathologists, and a board-certified healthcare executive with the American College of Healthcare Executives. Guy was born into an Army family at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, as the son of a Vietnam War combat veteran who retired as a Command Sergeant Major after 27 years of service. He and Joanne now reside in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where they are immensely blessed with the company of their three daughters, two sons-in-law, and two granddaughters.