Hello my name is Mark Ingoldby and I have lived in Washington my whole life. Early on in my life I wanted to help people and concurrently was an adrenaline junky. Combining those two things I set off to become a Paramedic. Not to long after starting that journey I realized just talking to patients in the back of the ambulance was both fulfilling and most helpful to them. Fast forward to getting my graduate degree I continued to feed that adrenaline side of me and became a crisis counselor.
My crisis counselor days really taught me to listen for the most important part of a person’s story. I spent eleven years in the Crisis Response world eventually becoming supervisor and traveling with others on their journey. That experience set a strong foundation to equip me for future endeavors as a social worker.
My last year at community mental health involved becoming the organizations Training Coordinator. This really fed a need for me due to my love of training and education. I missed the clinical piece though.
In 2017 I applied and became a Social Worker for Providence Internal Medicine. This involved true integration and the opportunity to build and develop the first Integrated Behavioral Health clinic in Primary Care for Providence throughout the region. This model through the support of UW AIMS was true integration and something I thought only existed in textbooks.
My passion and excitement for this treatment model hasn’t wavered over the last four years and my alignment with the Providence Mission creates for a great day to day experience.
Two years ago I became the LICSW supervisor for the program and began working with leadership to pivot through the Pandemic and imagine what behavioral health in the Primary Care could look like for our community. Every day is a challenge and some questions don’t have answers right away. Seeing our impact to patients who can walk down the hall from their Drs office to see a collaborative therapist who works closely with their doctor helps me to be patient and maintain stamina. I am excited to see how we as an organization and the whole community of behavioral health treatment providers will accept and flex to meet the needs of our ever evolving patients.
