Helen Porter, executive director at South High Senior Living, joined Integral Senior Living in 2016. She has served in a variety of leadership roles in the senior living industry, including overseeing memory care, performing as a licensed administrator and working as a business office director. Helen is a Nashville native who has a passion for encouraging people to fulfill their maximum potential. While pursuing her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in recreation therapy at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, her concentration was devoted to children with multiple disabilities. After graduation, she was called into working with seniors, beginning as the director of Life Enrichment. With a love for education, Helen has become a certified therapeutic recreation specialist, a certified dementia practitioner, and an Alzheimer’s disease and dementia care trainer. Outside of work, Helen enjoys running, biking, coffee and the word “enthusiasm.”