Scheduling Your Simulated Client Session
Click on the button below to schedule a half-hour telephone session with one of our trained simulated client actors.
You will be able to search the calendar for available dates and times that work with your schedule.
You can also filter by team member if you have found a rapport with a simulated client and would like to schedule another session with them.
Kym Dakin
Kym Dakin, M.Ed, has been working as a Simulated Client with HETI since 2015. She develops a variety of customized cases for MI practice so that the practitioner has a productive, highly engaged and realistic practice session. Additionally, Kym has been a part of the Standardized Patient program at Maine Medical Center, a collaborative effort through Tufts and Maine Med, for four years, teaching medical residents to partner more effectively, and communicate more productively with patients. She is the Founding Director of Voice Into Learning, LLC., specializing in team experience design, as well as a founding member of the true story improvisational theatre company - Portland Playback.
Robin Craver
Robin Craver, MPA, retired after 20 years as a municipal manager and for the last 3 years she has been training in psychic sciences including mystic mysteries, intuition, meditation, healing energy and mediumship at Arthur Findlay College and with renowned teachers such as Janet Nohavic, Suzanne Giesemann, Tony Stockwell and Colin Bates. She opened The Lakehouse Retreat Center in 2022 and has been a co-director and staff for an adult camp which began as Recovery Camp, now Kindred Spirits providing leadership, personal growth workshops, and community support for over 30 years. Robin has been a member of Co-counseling International (CCI) for 30 years and holds a teaching certificate since 2010. Co-counseling International is a peer to peer form of counseling. She lives on Webster Lake in Massachusetts with her loving husband Bob and is enjoying a new role as grandmother.
Mariann Bischoff
Mariann Bischoff MS, MSW, LCSW grew up belonging to a lake-and-woods ecosystem where humans, water, and woods nourished and cared for one another. This was an early visceral lesson in reciprocity and interconnection. She deepened her awareness of humanity's innate interconnection with Earth while researching water, its use, and gender relations alongside indigenous Palestinian communities in the West Bank. Since 2001, Mariann has pursued contemplative practices that support oneness. She now contributes to healing as an ordained member of the Order of Interbeing, the engaged Buddhist mindfulness tradition founded by Thich Nhat Hanh. The formal analytical disciplines of systems, root cause, and risk analysis, honed across previous careers in engineering and international agriculture, now inform her social work practice and teaching. She is an assistant professor of teaching and the management and policy practicum learning coordinator at Rutgers School of Social Work. Mariann also supports healing from trauma, addiction, and severed belonging through her private practice, Mindfulness Therapy, LLC. She specializes in helping medical professionals, clergy, corporate and community leaders, first responders, military members, and international workers identify and share their unique gifts. She is joyfully preparing to launch a nationwide therapeutic peer support group that fosters empathy and connection through motivational interviewing skills.