Living Your Best Life, In spite of Fear and anxiety

David Townsend, MSW, QMHP, PhD David Townsend, MSW, QMHP, PhD is a career educator, psychotherapist and an expert on the mindsets of economic classes and on crossing socioeconomic lines in education, work, and for social change. David is currently fulfilling the role of Consumer Advocate for Policy Partnerships, Development, and Member Relations at Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield. In this role, David catalyzes Anthem’s engagement with its member-stakeholders, helping to create partnerships that enable Anthem’s thought leadership and policy development and support health care innovation nationwide. Anthem, Inc. is one of the largest health benefits companies in the United States. “We are not powerless spectators of life. We are co-creators with God, and all around us are the gifts, the clay, which we can use to shape our world, we have the power to truly manifest our destiny and go beyond even our own limits” David says. David has consulted with an extensive array of charitable and non-profit organizations, churches and civic organizations throughout the country. As lead for RPA’s Impact Investing Practice, David helps individuals, foundations and corporations use a range of assets to achieve their social impact goals. In addition to advising asset owners on mission-aligned investment strategies, David oversees four customized portfolios of charitable investments including debt, equity, and recoverable grants He received his B.A. from Indiana University, earned a master's degree in Social Work from Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis and his doctoral degree in Transpersonal Psychology from The University of Noetic Science, Petaluma, CA. David is a proud Research Fellow at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, Ann, Arbor, Michigan.