Our Mission
At ZipHealthy, our mission is to empower individuals and organizations through exceptional Behavioral Health Services, Coaching, and Consulting.
We are committed to improving lives and fostering resilience. Our approach focuses on achieving optimal outcomes for every client we serve.
This commitment is fulfilled through personalized care and innovative solutions tailored to your specific needs.
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OUR VISION
Our vision is to be a trusted provider of results-driven Behavioral Health Services, Executive Coaching, and Organizational Consulting in the region. We deliver measurable improvements in performance, well-being, and operational efficiency.
For Individuals
We transform personal challenges into sustainable growth, equipping clients with evidence-informed strategies that produce tangible results in career advancement and life satisfaction.
For Organizations
We partner with businesses to support workforce wellbeing and leadership, with outcomes measured before and after, reported honestly, and never promised in advance.
Our Advantage
By integrating clinical expertise with business acumen, ZipHealthy delivers a comprehensive approach where mental well-being and strategic growth accelerate each other.
OUR CORE VALUES
Our core values drive everything we do, so that the people and organizations we serve get honest, measurable care.
Integrity
We uphold the highest standards of honesty and accountability in all interactions, building trust that translates to long-term client relationships and referrals.
Compassion
We deliver empathetic and personalized care to meet each client's unique needs, creating tailored solutions that address critical pain points efficiently.
Innovation
We implement cutting-edge solutions and methodologies, bringing clients approaches with published evidence behind them.
Excellence
We achieve excellence in every aspect of our work, measuring outcomes with validated tools and reporting them as they are.
Collaboration
We build powerful partnerships with clients and stakeholders, creating comprehensive solutions that address all aspects of organizational health.
Empowerment
We equip clients with the tools to take control of their growth, creating self-sustaining improvements that continue delivering value long-term.
HOW WE HELP
Our evidence-informed services deliver measurable results for individuals and organizations alike.
Individual & Family Therapy
Evidence-based therapy for anxiety, depression, trauma and relationships, with progress measured rather than assumed.
- Progress tracked with validated measures (PHQ-9, GAD-7)
- Licensed clinicians, in person and by telehealth
- Evening & weekend options
Employer Programs & EAP Counseling
Clinician-built workshops, manager training and EAP-style short-term counseling for Northwest Arkansas employers, scoped to your headcount and quoted in writing.
- Outcomes measured with the Workplace Outcome Suite, reported in aggregate
- Delivered by licensed clinicians
- Fixed quote, usually within two business days
Executive Coaching
Coaching for executives and founders, led personally by Stephen Velasquez, MBA (Cornell), MSW, LCSW. The peer-reviewed literature finds moderate average effects; we make no promise about yours.
- One fixed fee agreed in writing, never per session
- Discovery conversation first, at no charge
- Not therapy, and clear about it
WHAT THE RESEARCH SAYS
We cite the studies, name their limits, and measure our own work rather than borrow numbers. Findings describe the populations studied, not a promise of results for any client or organization.
Therapy
Progress in our clinical work is tracked with validated measures such as the PHQ-9 and GAD-7 and reviewed with you at regular intervals. If scores are not moving, the plan changes: a different approach, a different pace, or a referral to someone better placed to help.
Employer programs
Employees who use EAP counseling report less absenteeism and presenteeism afterward: in an industry white paper pooling 141,297 EAP cases from 61 providers (2010 to 2022), the roughly 62,800 to 67,800 cases with scores both before and after counseling improved on all five Workplace Outcome Suite measures, though without an untreated comparison group counseling cannot be credited alone.1 In a matched comparison of 156 EAP users and 188 non-users among Colorado state employees, users showed significantly greater reductions in absenteeism and presenteeism.2 Broad wellness programs are a different story. In two large randomized trials, an 18-month program offered at 20 of 160 worksites of one US retailer produced no statistically significant differences in clinical measures, health care spending or absenteeism,3 and a two-year program for 4,834 university employees produced none in clinician-measured biometrics, medical diagnoses or health care use.4
Coaching
A 2023 meta-analysis restricted to randomized controlled trials (37 studies, 2,528 participants) found a moderate overall effect of workplace and executive coaching (g = 0.59), with indications of publication bias, so the pooled estimate may overstate the true effect.5 Earlier meta-analyses found positive average effects on learning and performance (delta = 0.36 across 17 studies)6 and, across 18 studies of coaching in organizational settings, on performance, well-being, coping and goal-directed self-regulation (g = 0.43 to 0.74; the authors caution that the studies were few, mostly self-reported, and that studies without control groups showed larger effects).7
Sources
- Attridge, M. (2024). Workplace Outcome Suite (WOS) EAP Industry Global Report No. 6: Use and Effectiveness for Over 140,000 Counseling Cases from 2010 to 2022. TELUS Health and Employee Assistance Professionals Association. Industry white paper, pre-post design, no comparison group. Summary PDF
- Richmond, M. K., Pampel, F. C., Wood, R. C., & Nunes, A. P. (2017). The impact of employee assistance services on workplace outcomes: Results of a prospective, quasi-experimental study. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 22(2), 170-179. doi:10.1037/ocp0000018
- Song, Z., & Baicker, K. (2019). Effect of a workplace wellness program on employee health and economic outcomes: A randomized clinical trial. JAMA, 321(15), 1491-1501. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.3307
- Reif, J., Chan, D., Jones, D., Payne, L., & Molitor, D. (2020). Effects of a workplace wellness program on employee health, health beliefs, and medical use: A randomized clinical trial. JAMA Internal Medicine, 180(7), 952-960. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.1321
- de Haan, E., & Nilsson, V. O. (2023). What can we know about the effectiveness of coaching? A meta-analysis based only on randomized controlled trials. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 22(4), 641-661. doi:10.5465/amle.2022.0107
- Jones, R. J., Woods, S. A., & Guillaume, Y. R. F. (2016). The effectiveness of workplace coaching: A meta-analysis of learning and performance outcomes from coaching. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 89(2), 249-277. doi:10.1111/joop.12119
- Theeboom, T., Beersma, B., & van Vianen, A. E. M. (2014). Does coaching work? A meta-analysis on the effects of coaching on individual level outcomes in an organizational context. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 9(1), 1-18. doi:10.1080/17439760.2013.837499