This is a comprehensive evaluation that focuses on your current presenting problems/issues, medical and psychiatric history.
The evaluation takes approximately 90 – 120 minutes. This is ideally completed in one session. The goal of the evaluation is to come up with a comprehensive and individually tailored treatment plan with recommendations.
This is also an opportunity for you to decide if the practice is the right fit for you.
If medications are a warranted in your case, then we will schedule regular appointments in order to ascertain your progress, address any other concerns and refill your medications.
The appointments are approx. 30 minutes that includes medications and supportive psychotherapy.
These appointments maybe more frequent when I start a new medication and then once we have stabilized, we can decrease the frequency of visits as needed.
Not all problems and issues require medications. Many situations are better handled without medications using psychotherapy. Psychotherapy can be short-term or long-term. We can use several modalities such as solution-focused therapy, cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) or psychodynamic therapy.
The appointments are 45 minutes.
I offer second opinions or single consultations when requested. These are similar in nature to a new consult but would require record review from your referring doctor and prior treatments.
The appointments are usually between 120-150 minutes.