About - Aluria Advisory

The Firm

Aluria Advisory is a boutique healthcare M&A and operational advisory firm serving private equity firms, family offices, and behavioral health operators across the full deal lifecycle.

What sets the work apart is what informs it: licensed clinical practice, direct operator experience inside healthcare platforms, and hands-on involvement in live transactions. Most advisors bring one. We bring all three. That combination surfaces what standard financial diligence routinely misses: valuation mispricing, clinical integration risk, and post-close failures that are already embedded in the deal before it closes.

Our focus is behavioral health. That includes psychiatric outpatient, interventional psychiatry services including TMS and Spravato/esketamine, substance use disorder, and applied behavior analysis. We also advise on behavioral health services entering post-acute care settings including SNFs and ALFs, and on healthcare technology transactions evaluated both as acquisition targets and as components of behavioral health platform diligence.

Edisa Shirley

PhD, LMHC | Founder and Managing Partner

Edisa is a healthcare executive and licensed mental health clinician whose career spans clinical practice, multi-state behavioral health operations, M&A integration, and strategic advisory work for private equity and family office investors.

She served as Director of Integrations at Refresh Mental Health, a multi-site behavioral health platform subsequently acquired by Optum, and as Vice President of Operations at Beacon Behavioral Partners. Her transaction advisory work spans pre-close diligence, deal structuring, post-close integration planning, and expansion modeling across multiple behavioral health and healthcare technology engagements, two of which resulted in successful exits.

She currently serves as Chief Growth Strategy Officer at ClinicMind, a healthcare technology platform serving behavioral health practices nationwide, keeping her active at the intersection of technology, operations, and clinical delivery that her advisory clients navigate every day.

Edisa serves on corporate and advisory boards for healthcare organizations and has been recognized on national lists of top women leaders in healthcare in both 2025 and 2026. She holds a PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida.

Two Successful Exits PhD, Industrial-Organizational Psychology LMHC, Florida Corporate and Advisory Board Member Top Women Leaders in Healthcare, 2025 and 2026

Edisa Shirley, PhD, LMHC - Founder of Aluria Advisory

How We Work

Engagements begin with a confidential conversation: a transaction under consideration, a platform navigating post-close turbulence, or a healthcare technology company being evaluated as an acquisition target.

Most clients engage us in one of three ways: project-based diligence or integration work, retainer-based ongoing advisory, or board and strategic advisor roles. Every engagement begins with a written scope and clear deliverables.

We work with a small number of clients at any given time. The work is too consequential to scale through volume.

Where the clinician, the operator, and the dealmaker are the same person.

Considering a transaction, integration,
or expansion?

Where the clinician, the operator, and the dealmaker are the same person.

Considering a transaction, integration,or expansion?

Considering a transaction, integration,
or expansion?