Meet the Team
San Diego California Team
Mary Clapp, MSW
Life Care Manager
Mary Clapp has a Masters’s degree in Social Work from Ohio State University and a Bachelors’s degree in Social work from San Diego State University. She has over 25 years of experience working with seniors in various settings including home health and her own Care Management agency in Ohio. As a result, she draws on her extensive experience to act on her client’s behalf. She understands the unique needs and concerns of aging individuals and their families while treating each client with the love and compassion which she would expect for her own family members. Mary is a member of the Aging Life Care Association.
You can contact Mary by email at mary@visionarycaresd.com
Heather O' Boyle, LCSW
Life Care Manager
Heather O’Boyle, LCSW, MPH is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a Master’s Degree in Social Work and Public Health from San Diego State University. She has over 15 years experience assisting older adults in various healthcare settings, such as, hospitals, home health and hospice. Heather’s work has concentrated on end of life care and aging related issues. She understands the unique needs that individuals have, and uses her experience to provide compassionate and individualized care. She is passionate about providing person centered care where people can work toward their goals. When she’s not working, you can find Heather spending time with her family, going to the beach and hiking.
You can contact Heather by email at heather@visionarycaresd.com
Amy Hull, MS Gerontology
Life Care Manager
Amy is originally from the Boston area and spent the last ten years of her career working at a local nonprofit that helps older adults remain independent in their own home. Prior to that, she spent ten years in health care as an Administrative Supervisor at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Amy has worked with all ages; she has an undergraduate degree in Psychology and Elementary Education, and a Master’s degree in Gerontology, Management of Aging Services from the University of Massachusetts in Boston.
She has a passion for helping people live their lives to the fullest, and enjoys getting to know her clients and helping them achieve their goals. She has always enjoyed working with older adults and finds enjoyment in listening to their stories and hearing their wisdom.
In her free time, Amy enjoys spending time with her husband and two children. They enjoy the beach, being in nature, and attending their children’s sporting events. She enjoys reading and learning new things every day.
You can contact Amy by email at amy@visionarycaresd.com
Cynthia Smith, LCSW, C-ASWCM
Life Care Manager
Cynthia has invested over 20 years, as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), in the San Diego medical community. She confidently navigates concerns with medical care coordination, navigating the continuum of care, to promote options and outcomes that did not previously seem possible.
Cynthia will help guide a more secure path for the challenges you, your loved one, or client are facing. We all have experienced being lost, worried about a wrong turn taken, inaction due to fear, or faced a dead end; felt hopeless. Working together, directions and solutions will be identified to overcome perceived and identified obstacles. Her goal is to help you re-imagine your life, or your loved one’s life; even, your lives together. With extensive experience in life care management and a vast history of client success, her comprehensive and collaborative approach, with all involved parties, will help improve relationships, age in place, find advocacy with medical and community care providers, transition to a smaller home or a more supportive level of care; let her help you explore all the possibilities of which you may not be aware.
Cynthia is also keen in crisis and high conflict situations, acting as a mediator with family, fiduciaries, attorneys, or protective authorities. She is also a reliable local link for loved ones out of area who are not able to be here to monitor status as desired or readily in times of need.
You can contact Cynthia by email at cynthia@visionarycaresd.com
Kelly Munoz, LVN
Life Care Manager
Kelly Munoz has a Master’s degree in Behavioral Analysis from National University, a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Arizona State University, and her L.V.N from Brightwood College. She has over 11 years of experience working with seniors and several years of experience working with individuals with Dementia. She finds great joy in enhancing the lives of seniors and providing personalized services to each individual. What excites Kelly about Visionary Care is the team approach and support we have to provide care to each one of our clients, from Thoughtful Engagement, Nursing, LCSW, to MD and each individual works together to enhance the clients overall wellbeing.
When she is not working, she enjoys spending time with her family and enjoying everything that San Diego has to offer!
You can contact Kelly by email at kelly@visionarycaresd.com
Stuart B. Kipper, MD
Concierge Physician
After growing up in Los Angeles and attending UCLA as an undergraduate majoring in Microbiology, Dr. Kipper spent the next five years in the PhD. program in Immunology at UC San Francisco. While at UCSF, he worked on the role of T Cells – their maturation and importance – in autoimmune diseases like Lupus. After his PhD. work, he matriculated to UCLA Medical School, just as his two older brothers had done before him. After medical school, he settled in San Diego where he completed his residency program in Internal Medicine, in which he became Board Certified.
After residency, Dr. Kipper founded Medical Group of North County in 1990. Over the years, MGNC grew to be one of the largest independent and private medical practices in San Diego’s North County, and eventually became a part of the UCSD Healthcare System. In 2010, Dr. Kipper left the practice to pursue his efforts in maintaining committed relationships with his patients by opening his own private concierge practice in Encinitas, Ca. He has been in solo practice there ever since. Visionary Care is thrilled to have him provide concierge medical care to our clients.
Heidi Gergurich, BSW
Care Management, Social Work Intern
Heidi completed her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology with a minor in Family Studies and Human Development at The University of Arizona. She has worked in various social service fields, such as behavioral health and hospice care. Heidi has a passion for helping people achieve success in their lives and advocates for people who are unable to speak up for themselves. Heidi is looking to bring joy to her clients by helping them rediscover their passion in life. Heidi is working toward her Graduate Degree in Social Work at Arizona State University and aspires to help people with their emotional and physical well-being.
Heidi enjoys spending time with her husband and children at the beach or hiking. She also loves traveling, painting, photography, and art museums.
You can contact Heidi by email at heidi@visionarycaresd.com
Kapri Tenorio
Thoughtful Engagement Specialist
Kapri has been in the healthcare industry for over 11 yrs. Her background includes being a CNA, RNA, a Med – Tech, an Activities Assistant as well as an Activities Director mostly in San Diego. Kapri has a Therapeutic Recreational Therapist certificate from the state of California and is looking forward to stepping into her role as the Thoughtful Engagement Specialist for Visionary Care Consultants in Southern California. Kapri loves bringing joy to our elders and is looking forward to digging deep to find what it is that makes them smile even if it is just a walk down memory lane, or recreating a favorite holiday. During her time working in memory care Kapri developed the Sensory Box. This is an activity that focuses on stimulating four main senses sight, touch, smell, and taste.
You can contact Kapri by email at thoughtfulengagement@visionarycaresd.com
Nashville Tennessee Team
Christian Cid, MA Marriage & Family Therapy
Life Care Manager
Christian is the President and CEO of Serenity Counseling & Mediation Center. She earned her Master of Arts degree in Marriage and Family Therapy at Trevecca Nazarene University in 2006. Christian works alongside Hospital Corporations of America (HCA) and has collaborated with other community mental health facilities while in solo private practice at Serenity Counseling in 2007.
After many years with HCA as an experienced primary therapist, Christian joined LifeWORKS Counseling Center in 2012. Christian has knowledge of resources and experience to help to reach families with Visionary Care Consultants. She has worked as a counselor, life coach, Supreme Court Rule 31 Family Mediator, and Co-Parenting instructor for Life Bridge of TN (2014). Most importantly, she has a background in case management which makes her the perfect fit as a Care Manager for Visionary Care.
As a visionary, she assists individuals with mental health and life issues, and offers Family Mediation. Christian also is a Subject Matter Expert with SCORE/SBA. SCORE is the nation’s largest network of volunteer, expert business mentors, with more than 10,000 volunteers in 300 chapters.
Christian has a passion for keeping the family unit healthy and strong and hopes to collaborate services for families working with her as a Care Manager.
You can contact Christian by email at christian@visionarycaretn.com
