Areas of Expertise
Through professional counseling and therapy, our specialists are able to diagnose and treat a wide variety of mental health concerns.
For additional information or to make an appointment, please call 216.342.5496.
- Grades repeatedly below expectations for student’s intelligence
- Failure to complete homework
- Failure to turn homework in even though it is completed
- Procrastination
- Blaming others for low grades
- Does good work when supervised by a parent or teacher
- Inconsistent performance
- Feelings or behaviors that occur in response to life stressors
- Can result in a variety of symptoms including: low mood, tearfulness, nervousness, or anxiety
- Usually lasts a short period of time and then resolves and the individual returns to normal mood
- Can occur in response to a single event or multiple stressors
- Irritability on a daily basis
- Episodes of extreme anger with yelling, breaking objects, or even violent action
- Road rage
- “Flight Rage”
- Using anger to avoid exposing feelings of fear and pain
- Feelings of panic and fear of losing control of oneself
- Physical symptoms can include rapid heartbeat, tightness in the chest, inability to swallow, sweating
- Loss of appetite
- Sleep disturbances including insomnia and inability to stay asleep for more than a short time
- Inability to sustain attention and concentration for more than a few minutes
- Impulsive behavior
- Hyperactivity
- Chronic difficulties in school or on the job
- Interrupts others
- Social immaturity in childhood and adolescence
- Symptoms exist in more than one environment
- Pervasive difficulty with social interaction and communication
- Inability to interpret social cues
- Failure to develop empathy with resulting inability to accommodate to the feelings and needs of others
- Interested primarily in activities that do not require interaction with other people
- Difficulty with transitions; functioning inflexibly and requiring sameness day to day
- Tantrums in response to anxiety or stimulus overload
- Periods of depression as outlined above alternating with periods of extreme energy, pleasure seeking, hyperfocus on one activity or project, or not being able to focus at all
- Extreme irritability
- Inability to control impulses
- Disturbed interpersonal relationships
- Chronic severe pain due to illness or injury interferes with ability to function on a daily basis
- Pain continues more than a few weeks after the injury or onset of illness
- Social withdrawal and isolation
- Inability to maintain employment
- Focuses on building communication skills and conflict resolution
- Addresses issues or crisis in the relationship
- Aids in the development of healthy coping skills
- Appropriate for pairs of individuals including: married couples, friends, co-workers
- Assist couples who have decided to end their relationship; help transition or mediate issues like divorce, separation or co-parenting
- Feelings or sadness, guilt, hopelessness, helplessness
- Crying Spells
- Irritability
- Loss of pleasure in activities that used to be pleasurable
- Loss of appetite or overeating
- Insomnia or hypersomnia (sleeping too much)
- Loss of motivation and energy
- Social withdrawal
- Extreme restriction of amount and types of food consumed with accompanying severe weight loss and malnutrition
- Overeating in response to emotional distress such as anger, guilt, shame, self-loathing with unhealthy weight gain
- Binge eating and purging, usually by vomiting
- Focus is on helping families increase positive interactions with each other
- Works to improve communications between family members
- Increases the family’s ability to talk about emotions together
- Helps to establish healthy boundaries within the family system
- Aids in processing previous conflicts, traumatic experiences, and losses
- Sessions could include all family members or parts of the family (i.e., siblings, parents, and parents with a specific child)
- Grief is a normal response to the death of someone close to an individual
- Can include longing for the person, or preoccupation with the deceased
- May include intense sorrow, pain, distractibility, or feelings of guilt
- Occurs with other types of losses (not involving death) like end of relationship or job termination
Our clinicians and staff are LGBTQIA affirming.
- Questions about sexual orientation and gender identity
- Integrating sexuality and emotional relationships; non-traditional relationships
- Coming out to family, friends and co-workers
- Relationship and sexuality issues
- Queer family and parenthood issues
- Parental and family concerns
- Marriage issues
- Acknowledging and addressing life changes
- Some life changes are predictable and desired like promotions or graduations, but still require adjustments
- Other changes are unpredictable, unexpected or stressful and require some intervention
- Difficulty in expressing feelings other than anger
- Feeling marginalized by wife’s attention to children
- Feeling overwhelmed in the position of the family defender, bread-winner, problem-solver
- Feeling unappreciated at home and in the workplace
- Recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or images that are intrusive and unwanted, and that cause distress
- Repetitive behaviors (such as hand washing, checking doors and window, counting, putting this in order) that one is driven to perform according to rules that must be applied rigidly
- The thoughts and behaviors cause disruption in activities of daily living, work, school, and socialization
- Mood changes and anxiety during pregnancy and after delivery
- Symptoms range in severity, but can include: mood swings, sadness, tearfulness, anger, irritability and anxiety
- Women are more susceptible to this who have previous histories of depression or show symptoms early in their pregnancy
- Exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, sexual violence, either by being the victim or by witnessing the event
- Recurrent intrusive memories of the trauma
- Recurrent nightmares
- Flashbacks
- Psychological and physical distress when exposed to cues that recall or resemble an aspect of the original trauma
- Hypervigilance
- Exaggerated startle response
- Sleep disturbance
- Assessing and integrating an individual’s skills and interests as they move through their career
- Adapting to work environment changes and stressors
- Facilitating exploration of career options and training
- Insomnia
- Hypersomnia (sleeping too much)
- Interrupted sleep
- Inability to sustain attention because of sleep deprivation
- Falling asleep during the day, even after eight hours of sleep
- Consumption of substance in increasing amounts over time
- Development of tolerance such that more must be consumed to get a “buzz” than in the past
- Craving for substance
- Need for the substance in order to feel or function normally
- Recurrent use of substance interferes with ability to perform work efficiently and effectively
- Continued use despite having encountered social difficulties
- Blackouts (inability to remember events when intoxicated)
- Pattern of hazardous behavior, such as driving under the influence, and bar fights
- Gambling, shopping or excessive spending with individuals exhibiting any of the following: a lack of control; sense of exhilaration or excitement; spending behavior that causes financial or relationship difficulties.
- Teen years are a time of self-discovery and exploration
- Multiple factors can influence a teen’s development including: social media, peer pressure, biological changes, hormones, and academic stressors
- Challenges associated with the application process, and adjustment to a new academic level (grade school to high school; or high school to college)
- Body image issues occurring as a normal adjustment to a changing body
- Self-harming behaviors in response to stressors
- Self-esteem and confidence issues
Performed for a variety of reasons to clarify problem areas.
- Cognitive testing identifies strengths and weaknesses in the mental processing of information
- Educational testing identifies strengths and weaknesses in learning academic information and can diagnose learning disabilities
- Attention Deficit Disorder (ADHD) testing identifies impairments in the ability to sustain quality attention
- Diagnostic testing clarifies a mental health diagnosis to guide the treatment process
- Lack of assertiveness in relationships
- Feelings of inferiority compared to husband or boyfriend
- Insecurity in returning to work after extended period of child rearing
- Difficulty in gaining satisfaction of needs
Services
Partners for Behavioral Health and Wellness is a multidisciplinary organization which includes professionals in psychiatry, neuropsychology, psychology, psychoanalysis, social work, and counseling.
Services are provided to patients spanning the pediatric to geriatric spectrum who have needs for:
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy
- Medication Management
- Diagnosis
- Psychoanalysis
- EMDR
- Psychological Testing
- Family and Couples Therapy
- Psychotherapy