Mental Health & Counseling Services*

Bilingual Counseling Services:

The NCHS Mental Health & Counseling Department staff includes a licensed marriage and family therapist (MFT) who is the lead therapist, two psychologists, a psychiatrist, an administrative assistant/coordinator and a behavioral healthcare coordinator.

Our professional staff will provide:

� Individual therapy
� Child therapy
� Family, couples and marriage therapy
� Crisis intervention

We seek solutions with you to:

� Manage your stress and your anger more effectively
� Parent more creatively
� Overcome depression
� Develop fulfilling relationships
� Increase your self-esteem, self-awareness and confidence

Our commitment:

We are committed to service integration with NCHS programs and clinical services to ensure that you can receive comprehensive care, referral, case management, and education. Consequently, we have developed a wish list that will advance our integration of services with other NCHS departments.

We wish to:

� Expand hours of business to include weekend office hours
� Develop a support group for women and domestic violence victims
� Develop a Parenting Skills education group
� Be a training institution for postdoctoral students
� Offer assessment and follow-up psychotropic medications by qualified adult psychiatrists
� Create a trauma center

*Services available at select locations only. Call the health center near you to find out if service is available.