The Heritage Mental Health Clinic offers comprehensive clinical, diagnostic, educational, and consultative mental health services through specialized professionals and multidisciplinary teams. Using a clinical teamwork approach, we provide psychiatric outpatient care to children, adolescents, adults, families, and the elderly. Our services and
specialty services include:

SERVICES 

• Psychiatric Medication Management 

• Psychotherapy

  • Individual, Group, Couples, Marital, and Family Therapy

  • Brief Therapy

  • Cognitive Therapy

  • Psychodynamic

  • Psychoanalysis

• Psychological and Neuropsychological Testing
  (including effects of head injuries and aging)

• Cognitive Behavior Therapy for:

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

  • Panic Disorder

  • Social Phobias

• Treatment of Depression, Mood and Anxiety Disorders

• Diagnosis and Treatment of Psychotic Disorders and Severely Ill Patients

• Treatment of Suffering Relating to:

  • Grief and Loss

  • Adoption Challenges

  • Pregnancy Loss

  • Infertility

  • Career Changes

  • Marital Difficulties

  • Mid-Life Crisis

  • Self-Esteem Issues

  • Relationship Problems

• Treatment of Trauma including:

  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

  • Dissociative Disorders

  • EMDR

  • Post-critical Event Evaluation

  • Psychoeducational Group Therapy

• Behavioral Management of Children

• Therapy for Children in Preschool Settings

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Professional Assessment Services are specialized evaluations for professionals, including physicians, attorneys, corporate executives and clergy who are encountering problems with:

• workplace behavior
• drug and/or alcohol use
• anger management
• boundary violations
• relationship/marital problems
• psychiatric disorders

Evaluations range from 2-4 days and entail:

• psychiatric interviews
• psychological testing
• review of all pertinent collateral information
• gathering information about the unique context of the problem
• when applicable;

• addictions evaluation
• neuropsychological testing
• assessment of sexual behavior problems
• assessment of psychopathic and antisocial features
• evaluation of traumatic and compulsive features relevant to the problem

What is the expected outcome?

• verbal feedback on the final day of evaluation to all parties
• written integrative report within 5 days
• individualized recommendations relevant to identified problems
• contact with future referral sources to maintain continuity of care
• follow-up plan, including possible case management

(For further questions, you can email Jeanne Pangrac, Executive Director)

Intensive Outpatient Diagnostic Evaluations are especially helpful for patients who:

• have complex problems which have been insufficiently resolved, often with a history of prior treatments
• have reached an impasse or plateau in their treatment
• suffer from recurring and significant relapses
• want a "second opinion"

What does an Evaluation involve?

• an assessment by a team of specialists, including individual interviews, family studies, psychological testing and other diagnostic studies as needed
• team meetings of the specialists
• feedback meetings for the patient and family

What is the expected outcome?

• new ways of looking at and understanding your difficulties
• treatment recommendations specific for and tailored to you, i.e., a blueprint for concrete action
• help in implementing the recommendations

(For further questions, you can email Jeanne Pangrac, Executive Director)