Treatment based on your mental health priorities.
Services
Evaluation and Assessment
Perhaps, you’ve been referred by another provider or are looking for answers about your symptoms. A comprehensive mental health evaluation assesses your symptoms and concerns and how they affect your quality of life and life goals. Some people experience relief and hope with a diagnosis. Others may feel multiple emotions, including fear and anger. Getting a diagnosis is an important step towards effective treatment and is arrived at together.
“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you go; they merely determine where you start.”
-Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy
Psychoeducation and Counseling
As a nurse practitioner, I blend qualities of patience and respect with skills of observation, resourcefulness, innovation, and creativity to establish connection and collaboration. Our goals are to resolve symptoms and enable growth.
Though there are many phrases for the therapeutic relationship…I prefer to think of my patients and myself as fellow travelers…”
- Dr. Irvin D. Yalom
Medication Management
Prescription of psychotropic medication is yet another tool used to achieve the goals of symptom resolution and improved quality of life. Medication selection and dosing is personalized to provide optimum benefit and to minimize side effects. How medications work and reasons for their use are reviewed in-depth as we collaborate on a comprehensive treatment plan. I am available if you have medication questions and routinely assess medication for effectiveness.
“The decision that psychiatric medications are going to be part of a person’s journey to mental wellness is never a decision to be taken lightly. It is often quite a difficult decision and it takes a lot of courage. To help my patients through this process is a truly sacred privilege.”
- Dr. Evelyn Nelson