Amy-Erin Blakely
30+ years in behavioral health · MBA Healthcare Management · Built Florida's premier telepsychiatry movement.
Amy-Erin Blakely is the Founder and CEO of Virtually CALM, a national virtual behavioral health organization built to support individuals recovering from trauma, injury, pain, and life-changing events. With more than 30 years of experience across mental health, psychiatric care, substance misuse treatment, intellectual and developmental disability services, healthcare operations, and organizational leadership, Amy has spent her career building systems that improve access to care and help people receive support when they need it most.
Over the past three years, Amy has led Virtually CALM’s growth into a multidisciplinary virtual behavioral health partner for personal injury and workers’ compensation recovery. Under her leadership, the organization has developed a coordinated care model that connects clients, attorneys, medical providers, case managers, employers, and claims professionals with timely behavioral health services across therapy, psychiatry, psychological evaluation, neuropsychology, and speech-language pathology.
Amy’s operational background includes oversight of inpatient psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment programs, group care facilities, intensive outpatient programs, and mainstream outpatient services. Her background includes leading large-scale healthcare operations, overseeing budgets exceeding $85 million and teams of more than 900 employees, giving her a deep understanding of how to build clinically sound, scalable, and sustainable healthcare organizations.
A long-standing leader in telehealth innovation, Amy has more than 15 years of experience designing and implementing virtual behavioral health systems. She previously led a nonprofit organization in becoming one of Florida’s premier providers of telepsychiatry and telebehavioral health, ultimately supporting the delivery of more than one million telehealth services.
Today, Amy brings that same operational expertise and mission-driven focus to Virtually CALM, where she continues to expand access to trauma-informed behavioral health care for individuals navigating personal injury, workers’ compensation, and complex recovery pathways.
Amy holds a BA in Psychology from Stetson University and an MBA with a specialization in Health Care Management from the University of Phoenix.