User:Craig Wagner

Craig Wagner is an author, researcher, blogger, and communications specialist in the field of Integrative Mental Health, a discipline that combines the best of conventional drug therapy with evidence-based nondrug options. He is President of Onward Mental Health, an operating unit of Onward Ventures, LLC, a Michigan Corporation.

Within the mainstream, he works with major mental health organizations to broaden the acceptance of Integrative Mental Health. As a trainer and conference workshop leader for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), he regularly spoke on integrative mental health topics. As a featured speaker, he has delivered full-day continuing education for the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association. And as a communications specialist, he has summarized the latest non-drug research for the American Psychiatric Association's Caucus on Complementary and Integrative Medicine. He currently serves as Executive Editor for Dr. James Greenblatt, a leading integrative psychiatrist, and the creator of Psychiatry Redefined, a training and information resource for Integrative Mental Health.

Outside the mainstream, he works to advance non-drug approaches at a grass-roots level. As a leader, he has been adviser and board member of Integrative Mental Health for You, an Integrative Mental Health training organization, and Executive Director of Safe Harbor, a leading alternative mental health web platform and practitioner forum.

As a speaker and consultant, he raises awareness, including helping the producers of CrazyWise craft their message for a feature-length documentary about the transformative potential of psychological crisis. As a support group leader, he has aided adolescent siblings of people with mental health diagnoses better cope. And as a blogger for Mad In America, the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care, and Onward Mental Health, he is one of many voices helping to rethink psychiatry.

His book, Choices in Recovery, is a guide to 27 nondrug approaches for mental health recovery, written for those with mental health diagnoses and their supporters. It has been called "an important contribution to psychiatric care" and "a book that will save lives." It is the first to present the full breath of evidence-based non-drug treatments in an easily understandable form for those in mental distress and their loved ones. He collaborates and shares his insights on ResearchGate, a social network for scientists and researchers. Previously, he was a marketing communications executive in the high-tech industry and continues to offer communications services through an independent consultancy. He has served as President of Musicians United to Sustain the Environment (MUSE), a Michigan-based music and environmental nonprofit that issued grants to grass-roots conservation organizations with funds raised from music. He has a BS and an MBA and lives with his family on a small farm outside of Ann Arbor, Michigan.