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Health Services

Counseling Services

Individual Counseling

Individual therapy involves you sitting one-on-one with a therapist and talking about your concerns. Common psychological concerns may include:

Frequent and/or chronic sadness that is hard to overcome
Recovery from a traumatic event
Difficulty concentrating and focusing at home, work, and school
Panic attacks and/or high levels of anxiety
Trouble getting along with others
Hearing or seeing things that others don’t hear or see
Difficulty with eating and sleepingIntense feelings of loneliness, helplessness, or worthlessness
Sexual difficulties or lack of interest
Physical aches and pains that are not related to a medical disorder
Grief and loss

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Group Counseling

Group counseling is a powerful treatment option. There are lots of different types of groups, but we run interpersonal process groups. These groups focus on helping people understand how they function in interpersonal relationships.

All groups are not the same. Interpersonal process groups address concerns like:

Difficulty getting along with others
Trouble understanding how you impact others
Giving and receiving critical feedback
Problems with reading social cues
Poor communication skills

Check out the groups that we typically run 1-2 times per year.

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Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services

Our Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program for Adults (PRP-A) is focused on offering adult patients the skills and support that they need to successfully manage life's stressors. This program is available to community members who meet specific criteria.

Each patient has a dedicated rehabilitation team that offers services in-person and via telehealth in individual and group settings. Patients have regular appointments with members of your rehab team to support your health and wellbeing. Most patients get about six (6) appointments per month.

Only licensed mental health providers can refer patients to our PRP program.

PRP Groups Menu

Healthy Eating/Nutrition Group - 2nd Mondays @ 2pm
Self care Group - 4th Tuesdays @10am
Money Management Group - 1st Wednesdays @ 12pm
Social Skills Group - 3rd Thursdays @ 3pm

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Couples & Family Counseling

No matter the size of the family, family dynamics can be difficult. Not only does each person in the family have a personality, but the family unit has a personality as well.

The good news is that anyone can make use of family counseling, and this type of treatment looks different for each family. Traditional, blended, step, adoptive, LGBT, military, and foster families are all good candidates for family counseling.

Couples issues that can be addressed in therapy include:

Frequent arguing
Loss of sexual interest or a decrease in sexual activity
Trouble connecting to each other
Emotional and character attacking during arguments
Ending a marriage/relationship in a healthy way
Trouble navigating cultural and/or social differences like race or religion
Premarital counseling

Family issues that can be addressed in therapy include:

Setting healthy boundaries for each family member
Functioning as a family unit after the loss of a family member
Fair fighting and getting along
Forming new family relationships
Resolving old family conflicts

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In-home Counseling (Mobile Treatment Services)

Our mobile treatment service (MTS) brings the healing to your home, job, or other community setting to provide health and wellness services to you. This program is available to community members who meet specific criteria.

A dedicated team of health professionals will come to your home, job, or other community setting to provide health and wellness services to you.

A treatment team is assigned to each patient in the program. The treatment team consists of different professionals (like mental health therapists, psychiatrists, addiction counselors, vocational specialists, nurse practitioners, peer supporters) who will visit you 1-2 times per week to help you meet your mental health wellness goals.

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Telehealth Services

All groups are not the same. Interpersonal process groups address concerns like:

Difficulty getting along with others
Trouble understanding how you impact others
Giving and receiving critical feedback
Problems with reading social cues
Poor communication skills

Check out the groups that we typically run 1-2 times per year.

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Medication Services

Medication Management

There are times when counseling is the sole means of treatment for mental concerns. However, there are other times when medication can be added to the treatment plan to offer more or deeper relief of mental health symptoms.

During your first visit, which typically lasts 45-60 minutes, a clinical professional will evaluate you to determine if a medical evaluation would be a healthful and helpful treatment option for you. If so, s/he will refer you to one of our medical professionals who will conduct a 30-60 minute medical evaluation to determine if medical intervention would be helpful for you. Keep in mind that medication may be one of many treatment options available to you.

If medication is prescribed, you will have follow-up medication management appointments that may last anywhere from 10-45 minutes. These appointments will be used to check in on your mental health symptoms, evaluate your side effects of medication prescribed, make tweaks to current medication dosage, discontinue medication if necessary, etc.

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Medical Marijuana Card Program

Our medical marijuana (MM) card program offers several services to patients to help them determine if MM may be a good treatment option for them. Services include:

Education about the benefits and drawbacks of obtaining a MM card and using MM
Comprehensive medical evaluation & assessment to determine if MM can safely be added to your drug regimen
Training on how to safely use MM as a part of your treatment planRegular medical follow-ups to determine if dosing is accurate and addressing treatment needs
Registration activation with Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission.

These other links may be helpful.

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Psychological Evaluations & Testing

Return to Work/School Evaluations

Psychological evaluations involve an intake as well as assessment to determine the psychological and/or emotional health of a person. Sometimes employers or school administrators will request that an employee or student get an evaluation. Other times individuals will request an evaluation for themselves.

iHEAL offers this service and would be happy to help. After conducting the evaluation, which may take 1-3 sessions, a report will be created that provides an answer to the referral question. Additionally, you will learn about your evaluation results in a feedback session shortly after your evaluation is complete.

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Surgery Evaluations

Weight Loss Surgery & Gender Affirmation Surgery

Before undergoing a major medical transition, surgeons typically like to rule out any other medical problems that may complicate your surgery or recovery from surgery. Thus, they may request that patients obtain a psychological evaluation before weight loss surgeries (e.g., gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy, etc.) and gender-transition surgeries.

Evaluations help us determine:

your understanding of the risks and benefits associated with the surgery
whether you have realistic post-surgery expectations
psychological and emotional barriers to a successful surgery and recovery
adequate coping skills to address unexpected recovery obstacles

Psychological evaluations will help you prepare mentally and emotionally prepare for your surgery process.

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2nd Opinion

Sometimes you get a diagnosis, and you feel concerned that it is incorrect or doesn't explain all the symptoms that you are experiencing. Some of the world's best doctors/healthcare professionals have made mistakes in diagnosing and treatment planning.

If you have received a diagnosis that you aren't sure about or just want to confirm its accuracy, you owe it to yourself to lift every rock necessary to make sure that you understand what is going on with your mind and body.

Contact us and we'll set up up with an assessment what looks at a wide range of psychological/emotional disorders to solidify a diagnosis.

After conducting the evaluation, which may take 1-3 sessions, a report will be created that shares our results. Additionally, you will learn about the diagnoses that we found (if any) in a feedback session shortly after your evaluation is complete.

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Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder

Attention Hyperactivity Deficit Disorder (ADHD) can be one of the most difficult diagnoses to make. Many of the symptoms that are consistent with this diagnosis are also found in other very common mental health disorders like anxiety and depression. It's also difficult to diagnose because many people grew up hearing things like "you're lazy" or "unfocused." In other words, some people have been trained to blame themselves for their academic and/or professional struggles.

While there are times when people are naturally unmotivated to do certain things, there are other times when the brain is struggling to function under certain conditions. This "struggle" is often seen externally as laziness when it's really a disease process unfolding.

The most common assessment that we offer is for ADHD. If you experience the following symptoms, you may want to request an assessment:

feeling unmotivated
difficulty concentrating/focusing
highly distractible
trouble sitting/standing still
forgetfulness
impatience
difficulty "turning off" the brain at night that leads to trouble sleeping
verbal impulsivity
fidgetiness

Our assessments will help us understand if ADHD is present and, if so, what's the severity of the problem. From there, we can offer documentation that can be shared with your school or employer about how they can help you be successful because here's what we know...

The ADHD brain isn't less developed or "dumber" than other brains. It functions differently and needs a different environment to function well.

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Differential Diagnosis ***Referrals from treatment providers ONLY

Sometimes, a diagnostic evaluation yields complicating factors that make it hard to determine a differential diagnosis. If you need help sorting through the symptoms presented by your patient, our assessment process can help you make a differential diagnosis.

By the end of our assessment, the patient and you should have a better clinical picture of the patient's brain, which can inform your treatment planning process.

***Note that this type of assessment referral is typically used by mental health providers (e.g., licensed psychologists, professional counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists, and school counselors), NOT patients, parents, teachers,

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Test/Performance Anxiety

In the classroom or boardroom...on the tennis court or in a legal court...in front of big and small groups.

We are asked to "perform" everyday, and sometimes these requests can create anxiety in us that is difficult to manage. Keep in mind that even seasoned professionals and well-trained athletes get anxiety when they are asked to perform. However, they are able to cope with those feelings without decreasing their performance.

Do you "freeze" when it's time for you to perform a task that you definitely know?

Do you forget everything that you studied as soon as the test starts? Does this experience result in a failing outcome?

If you are experiencing anxiety that impacts your ability to perform at your best socially, professionally, or academically, we offer testing to tease apart different types of anxiety disorders as well as other problems that may be contributing to your performance concerns.

After conducting the evaluation, which may take 1-3 sessions, a report will be created that provides an answer to the referral question. Additionally, you will learn about your evaluation results in a feedback session shortly after your evaluation is complete.

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Learning Giftedness & Disability

There are typically three distinct reasons that people request psychoeducational testing.

You believe that you (or your child) are learning gifted.

"Learning gifted" means that a person is performing at a noticeably higher level than other students in their age range and grade. Typically, learning gifted people can tackle exceptionally difficult concepts quickly and before the rest of their peers. For example, a second grader who is doing advanced calculus problems or a 5th grader who has a vocabulary that is similar to that of a college professor should be tested for learning giftedness.

You believe that you (or your child) may have a learning disability.

There are several different types of learning disabilities that may be impacting your academic perform at school/college. If you are performing below your expected grade level AND typical academic interventions have failed to help you, you may have a learning disability.

People who learn differently are not just struggling within one concept within a subject area; they are struggling with several foundational concepts that make it nearly impossible for them to grasp more complicated concepts. For example, if you (or your child) are struggling with many basic letter concepts and sounds, then pronouncing, reading, and understanding larger words would be nearly impossible.

It is important to point out that people who struggle with learning disabilities are not less intelligent than other people. They simply learn differently that the majority of other people. Psychological research has given us several techniques and strategies to help people who experience these difficulties. However, the first step is learning whether a learning disability is present.

Your school (or your child's school) requires an IQ test.

Some private and charter schools cater specifically to students who are "learning exceptional." While this definition varies across different institutions, it generally means that a person has at least above average intelligence. If they do cater to such students, they likely require an intelligence test as part of the admissions process.

No matter why you need psychoeducational testing, iHEAL has psychologists who are trained to administer, score, and analyze IQ tests. This specific type of testing may take 3-8 hours, depending on the referral question. Depending on what you need, we will tailor a testing process for your child's specific needs, making sure to avoid test fatigue and burnout. As such, we offer breaks during the testing sessions and typically break up testing across more than one day if a patient needs more than four (4) hours of testing.

We are not currently offering this service.

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Addiction Services

Individual and Group Addiction Counseling

Addiction affects the whole person and the whole family. It is not a disease that stays confined to one person or group.

The first step to getting counseling for addiction problems is to get an addictions evaluation (see Addiction Assessments & Evaluations tab above). After an evaluation has been completed, you will get recommendations from the clinician. There are many things that may be recommended at the end of an evaluation, and one of them may be addictions counseling.

Like mental health counseling, addictions counseling can be done with individuals, groups, or families. Typical addiction issues discussed in counseling include triggers; relapse prevention; withdrawal, tolerance, use, and abuse; codependence and unhealthy relationships; medication; trauma; legal problems; and more.

You don't need an addiction problem to be in addiction counseling. People who live with individuals who currently or formerly suffer with addiction can attend addiction counseling too.

Through counseling, family members and friends can learn about addiction, how it works in the body and brain, and how they can help their loved one. They can learn about pitfalls and expectations about recovery.

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Addiction Assessments & Evaluations

When a person is referred for an addictions counseling, the first step is getting an addictions evaluation.

An evaluation helps us determine three things. First, it helps us determine if there are use and abuse concerns. Second, it helps us determine the severity of use and abuse. Depending on the severity, there may be an addiction diagnosis made. Three, it helps us look at the patient as a whole person and come up with recommendations about how we can tackle this problem.

We use addiction assessments to measure things like risk factors, responses to treatment, effectiveness of treatment interventions, etc. Sometimes we do assessments regularly, and other times we do them sporadically. The patient's treatment team will determine how often we need to assess. Remember, the patient is a member of the treatment team, so you have say in everything that happens.

Treatment should not happen to you. It should happen with you.

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Gambling Counseling

Maryland is now home to several casinos. While this industry brings more social events and jobs to the area, gambling can become a problem that impacts your family, career, and health.

We offer FREE gambling counseling services at iHEAL. You don't need to have insurance. The services are at no cost to you or your insurance provider.

You qualify for free gambling counseling services if just one of these conditions applies to you:

You are having troubling controlling your gambling behavior.
You are a concerned about other person's gambling behavior. (You don't have to be related to the person to be concerned...you can be a friend, associate, or family member).

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