TOM Merilahti

Support group, professional network, and a source of information for dual diagnosis patients and professionals within psychiatry and/or substance abuse treatment with +635 individual members. We offer people suffering from mental- and comorbid substance abuse disorders an easily approachable non-institutional support based on integrated group therapy. For professionals we offer an important patient-oriented approach that can be utilized for a better understanding, treatment and care of dual diagnosis.

I run a virtual organisation, network, and peer group for people with dual diagnosis having at least one mental disorder and a comorbid substance abuse problem. Integrated dual diagnosis treatment is still a big challenge in the Finnish health care system. I operate both offline and virtually (since 2014) with hundreds of collaborates and members with dual diagnosis, and thirty-one professionals specialized in mental health, psychiatry, substance abuse treatment, and in social services.

I've been working since 1986 as an entrepreneur specialized in virtual organization- and project management, integrated marketing communication including sponsorship and event marketing. Today, I represent more than a thousand dual diagnosis patients and collaborates including thirty-one valued professionals specialized in psychiatry, substance abuse treatment, and in social services.

KAKSOISPISTE: is peer group, professional network, and a virtual organisation I founded in September 2014 to support people suffering from dual diagnosis. Dual diagnosis treatment is still a big challenge in the Finnish health care system. We operate today with 680 members including thirty-one valued professionals within psychiatry, substance abuse treatment, and social services. Our objective is to improve the status and treatment of dual diagnosis patients in Finland by Connecting the Unconnected.

The mission is simply to assemble the best professional teams of people from my globally extensive network, who can most efficiently achieve an organizations or individual's objectives.

Connects the Unconnected.