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, neurology, advanced practice psychiatric nursing, psychology, 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
  • Group Therapy