About My Practices, DFS Family Services and Disability Financial Services LLC

DFS Family Services is the business name I practice under to provide health care and disability management consulting services for families. Disability Financial Services LLC is my entity under which I provide financial case management to families or trustees needing a roadmap to manage the healthcare and living costs for persons whose illnesses interfere with economic viability or day-to-day money management. My core competency areas are 1) psychiatric treatment and systems of care, 2) care and case management for persons living with mental illness, 3) disability-related life care planning and 4) financial case management for persons with disability, including projective cost planning and navigation of the financial and healthcare delivery systems in the mental healthcare marketplace. My goal is simple: equip family caregivers with the best information, critical thinking, and financial competencies to deliver the best quality of life for their loved one and themselves. I have a core belief and mission:  provide parents and families the “how, where, when, and why now?” to manage an adult child or other family member with psychiatric disabilities.

Note: I only provide health-related case management OR financial case management services to a client, but not both concurrently due to conflicts of interest that can arise providing both services to the same client.

DFS Family Services and Disability Financial Services LLC are registered in the State of Maryland.

How I Serves Families

I provide interventional medical or psychiatric care planning and coaching services for families needing a qualified navigator in the mental healthcare world. I practically apply my 25+ year experience in psychiatric treatment and recovery to retool or stabilize the life of a loved one with a primary psychiatric or complex disability picture. Over time, I teach parents and families how to be competent caregivers AND manage their own wellness. 

I also perform financial life care planning and provide special needs trust planning for families and fiduciaries, as well as ongoing financial case management, bill paying, provider vetting and management, and fiduciary services.  Check out my FAQs about financial case management for families or fiduciaries.

We are “on the ground” in DC in NYC but perform video consults and follow-along services for parents and families nationwide. 

Check out Tom’s extended Bio on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/parentnavigator