Dr. Fairchild is a licensed psychologist who founded Baytree Behavioral Health in Melbourne, Florida. He was the Founder and Co-Director of the Stress, Trauma, and Acute Response (STAR) Team for Kennedy Space Center. Additionally, he co-founded Welcome Home Vets, Inc., a not-for-profit veterans’ support organization and he served as clinical consultant to National Veterans Homeless Support Inc., helping to veterans with their transition and reintegration into the Brevard community.
Serving 21 years on active duty with the Army Medical Department from 1975 to 1996, Dr. Fairchild retired as a lieutenant colonel. While on active duty, he worked in combat health care administration for half of his career, before completing his Doctorate of Psychology at the University of Denver and his internship at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 1989.
Dr. Fairchild completed his doctoral work on Human Interaction in Space Travel and Space Operations and later trained in Aviation Psychology, serving with Army Aviation and Airborne units. He was selected for the first congressionally mandated Psychopharmacology Demonstration Project, which trained active-duty psychologists to prescribe medications.
Dr. Fairchild has served as a Grief Camp Psychologist for the annual Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), a not-for-profit organization providing services to spouses, children and other family members of those warriors who have made the ultimate. He is a consultant to the Amen Clinic, the National Veterans Homeless Support, AVET Project, and Veterans Court. Dr. Fairchild is a certified Clinical Forensic Examiner and Expert Witness for the courts. He has been an Adjunct Faculty member at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University.
Dr. Fairchild mobilized a team of presenters for the International Congress of the Critical Incident Stress Foundation conference, sharing his team’s experience with critical incidents and follow up mental health services following the NASA Columbia accident. The team conducted 53 debriefings with KSC personnel following the disaster. He also organized a presentation team for a weeklong seminar on PTSD for the Florida School of Addiction Studies and for trainings at Boeing, Lockheed and United Launch Alliance. He has presented at the International Congress of Psychiatry in Brussels, Belgium and at Assumption University in Thailand. Dr. Fairchild was awarded the Excellence in Clinical Practice Award in 2013, by the Space Coast Counselors Mental Health Association.
In his current limited clinical practice, Dr. Fairchild specializes in posttraumatic stress disorder working primarily with Veterans and their families, who come from across the country for evaluations and treatment. He has worked with PTSD, mood disorders, ADHD, as well as other brain-based disorders.
