Areas of Mental Health Expertise
The clinical specialists at Psychological & Behavioral Consultants are specifically trained in the diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of a wide variety of mental health issues and concerns. Our clinical specialties include:
Abuse/Domestic Violence: Therapy to help people who have been victimized by someone with the intent to do harm. Abuse can be physical, psychological, sexual or verbal.
Addiction: Treatment to help overcome physical or psychological dependence on alcohol or drugs, or behaviors such as gambling, that have potentially harmful consequences. This treatment may be in conjunction with help for any psychiatric disorders that may be present.
Adjustment Disorder: Treatment for anxiety or depression resulting from acute stress.
Anger Management: Behavior modification that addresses the impulsive or destructive expression of anger that may lead to violent behavior.
Anxiety Disorders: Help with psychological and physical symptoms of acute or chronic anxious feelings.
Asperger’s Syndrome/Autism: A spectrum of disorders that are characterized by impaired communication and social interaction, restricted interests and repetitive behaviors. Treatment includes individual and group therapy focused on socialization behaviors.
Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): One of the most common childhood disorders that can last into adolescence and adulthood, with symptoms including difficulty in staying focused, paying attention, managing impulses, and often, hyperactivity.
Bariatric: Therapy for the treatment of obesity, including pre-surgical evaluation and post-surgical therapy and support, all in close collaboration with the surgical team.
Behavioral/Oppositional: A pattern of uncooperative, argumentative and hostile behavior toward authority figures that is disruptive to daily living.
Bipolar Disorder: Treatment for clinically significant periods of depression alternating with euphoria, accompanied by impulsivity, sleep disturbances, changes in energy and at times, suicidal thoughts.
Depression: Treatment for symptoms such as low motivation and energy, persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness, low self-esteem, changes in sleep or eating patterns, and possible suicidality.
Eating Disorders: Severe disturbances in eating behavior or extreme obsessions about body weight or shape. The two primary types of eating disorders are anorexia nervosa (a compulsive pursuit of thinness) and bulimia nervosa (recurrent binge eating followed by purging).
Grief Counseling: Therapy to teach coping skills for the emotional response to bereavement and loss.
Illness Education: Teaching about symptoms of psychiatric disorders in order to facilitate their early recognition and treatment, resulting in more complete improvements in health.
Learning Disabilities/School Issues: Assessing difficulties in listening, language, reading, mathematics, motor skills and intellectual weaknesses that interfere with a child’s ability to effectively learn.
Marital Counseling: Support and intervention to help couples recognize difficulties and collaborate on problem-solving.
Medication Management: An assessment by a medical professional resulting in the prescription of medication to assist in the treatment of psychiatric symptoms, coupled with ongoing care and monitoring. This is done in close collaboration with any other mental or physical health care providers.
Men’s Issues: Treatment for mental health issues including anxiety, depression, family, intimacy, parenting, relationships and stress as they specifically relate to men.
Neuropsychology: Assessment and treatment of individuals with brain injury or impaired brain function.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Therapy to reduce recurrent, unwanted thoughts that produce anxiety and repetitive, irrational behaviors associated with this anxiety.
Pain Management: Behavioral therapy that can help reduce chronic pain, including relaxation training and stress management.
Panic Attacks/Panic Disorder: Treatment for episodes of acute anxiety that usually include physical symptoms such as shortness of breath, stomach and/or chest tightness and rapid heart rate.
Parenting: Education, counseling and support for development of parenting skills, including behavior modification, discipline and managing parenthood and family challenges.
Phobias/Fear: Treatment to help overcome intense or irrational fears such as social or performance anxiety, or specific panic triggers like flying or leaving a familiar safe area.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Therapy for those suffering from the aftermath of exposure to a terrifying incident that has caused or threatened physical harm, who are now experiencing persistent and excessive anxiety, worry, fear and/or avoidance of specific events or circumstances. Treatment can include teaching coping skills, deep muscle relaxation and deep breathing exercises, Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) and medication if appropriate.
Schizophrenia: Medication management for those experiencing loss of touch with reality, such as hearing voices and seeing visions that others do not hear or see (hallucinations) or experiencing irrational fear of being harmed or persecuted by others (paranoia). Also included in treatment is therapy to develop coping skills and healthy social interactions.
Seasonal Affective Disorder: Treatment for depression that appears primarily during the winter months and abates during spring and summer. Depending on individual symptoms and needs, a treatment plan may include bright light therapy, regular focused exercise and medication.
Social Skills: Instruction and training for children and adults to help build the skills we use to communicate and interact with each another.
Stress Management: Identification of healthy ways to manage and cope with stress.
Suicide Prevention: Responding quickly to a suicidal crisis and evaluating the need for medication and/or therapy. In addition to close monitoring, those who are suicidal can be linked with other important resources, such as emergency numbers, support groups and group or individual therapy. Emergency hospitalization may be part of treatment when necessary.
Testing: The use of specialized tools to gain information about intelligence, academic achievement, personality, perceptual motor skills and other functions. Test results are individually analyzed and interpreted by a psychologist.
Underachievement: Treatment for children and others whose performance does not match their potential to learn and succeed.
Women’s Issues: Treatment for mental health issues including anxiety, depression, family, intimacy, parenting, relationships and stress as they specifically relate to women. Also included are postpartum depression and other issues related to pregnancy and the postpartum period, premenstrual mood changes and perimenopausal issues.
Work-Related Issues: Assistance for coping with job-related pressures, stress and anxiety, and/or lack of job satisfaction.
For more information on behavioral and mental health disorders and treatment, visit the National Institute of Mental Health Web site at http://www.nimh.nih.gov/
This information is for educational purposes only and should not be used to make decisions about your mental health.