Meet Virginia Cruse
Virginia is a Licensed Professional Counselor and National Certified Counselor specializing in Military Issues and Combat-Related Trauma. She provides crisis intervention and evidence-based treatments for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Moral Injury, Depression, Combat Operational Stress, and other diagnoses. Virginia is a certified clinician in Cognitive Processing Therapy and Prolonged Exposure Therapy and has 20+ years’ experience serving Active Duty Military, Veterans, Military retirees and family members. She is a Certified Group Psychotherapist and active American Group Psychotherapy Association member. Virginia is a Combat Veteran and published researcher. She has one amazing husband, Jay, and one terrible dog, Peanut.
Meet Katie Salidas
A USA Today bestselling author and RONE award winner known for her unique genre-blending style, Katie gives new meaning to the term sleep deprived. As the owner of Rising Sign Books, Katie provides writing assistance to authors at various levels: editing, book doctoring, and ghostwriting. In the last twelve years, she's written over thirty of her own books, while helping other authors find their footing in the publishing world. Her nonfiction titles include Go Publish Yourself, Write & Edit the Damn Book, and Acknowledge & Heal (A woman-focused guide to PTSD). She's also completed six bestselling book series: Immortalis, Olde Town Pack, Little Werewolf, Chronicles of the Uprising, Agents of A.S.S.E.T., and Running from the Devil. When she's not writing, Katie is the host and producer of the Spilling Ink writing podcast. She also does weekly pop culture reviews (breaking down the plot holes in your favorite TV shows) on The Plotaholics podcast.
Find out more at https://www.katiesalidas.com/
Meet Heather Di Rocco
Heather and Virginia met in the early 2000s in Darmstadt, Germany, and have been friends ever since, through moves, career changes, and the long stretch of life that happens between them. Both women eventually stepped away from the DoD and into the private sector, where Heather built a career in systems, processes, and automation, founding InsureBot Solutions LLC to help small businesses stop drowning in the work that happens behind the scenes. More than two decades after that first meeting, they finally get to work together again.
Heather handles the back end so Virginia and Katie can stay focused on the front: the clients, the writing, and the training. Using AI and automation, she builds the infrastructure that keeps a growing business running intake, follow-up, scheduling, and the hundred small handoffs that quietly eat a founder's week. It's unglamorous work, and that's the point. The people who come here are carrying enough already; the least the business can do is make it easy to get help. Currently Heather lives in Kailua, Hawaii with her dog Coco. She is an active member of BNI and a sponsor and a board member of the Kailua Chamber of Commerce.
Find out more about Heather at: https://insurebotsolutions.ai
Public-facing work via Virginia Cruse and The PTSD Recovery Series. Clinical services are not currently being offered.
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