Medication management services are provided to individuals who may benefit from psychiatric medications. Each patient is carefully assessed and provided ongoing monitoring to ensure the medications are effective and well-tolerated.
Pharmacogenetic Testing
Pharmacogenetic testing is a type of genetic testing that examines a person’s genetics and how this can affect the individual’s response to medications, specifically mental health or psychotropic medications. This can help guide your clinician to consider variations genetically and how this can guide medications choices in mental health treatment. This is a simple mouth swab that can be sent to you to complete. Speak to your clinician to determine if this type of testing is appropriate for you.
Motivational interviewing (MI) helps patients by empowering identification of their own reasons for change and develop a personal motivation to make positive behavioral modification. This allows feeling more power in situations and commitment to health goals through a team approach with the healthcare provider.
Behavioral modification is a treatment approach that is focused on behavioral change through positive rewards or consequences. This can be helpful in helping promotion of lifestyle change.
Trauma-informed care (TIC) is a clinician or health care worker understanding the significant and severity of trauma in society. This type of treatment approach provides a safe environment for healing in the healthcare setting.
Play therapy helps patients, primarily children, by providing a safe space to express emotions and experiences. Big feelings can be difficult to communicate sometimes and this treatment helps patients work through difficult feelings, develop coping mechanisms, and improve their overall mental well-being through play instead of only words.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) helps patients by identifying and changing negative thoughts and behaviors related to sleep, allowing development of healthier sleep habits and overcome the underlying causes of their insomnia. This helps to alleviate symptoms instead of only just relying on medication. This is the gold treatment and recommendation for insomnia treatment.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps patients to identify negative thought patterns and replaces these thoughts with more realistic and positive ones. This process leads to improved behaviors and empowers individuals to manage mental health by actively changing thinking and actions.