Behavioral Health
1522 17th Street
Lewiston, ID 83501
Hours:
Monday - Friday 8:00am - 5:30pm
Closed for lunch 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Tri-State Clearwater Medical Behavioral Health appointments are available to persons ages 16 and older. Their clinic provides an open, supportive, and confidential environment to address behavioral health concerns through integrated behavioral health care.
What is Integrated Behavioral Health Care?
Integrated behavioral health care blends medical conditions and related behavioral health factors affecting health and well-being in one setting. Integrated behavioral health care is part of a whole-person care in which behavioral health and medical providers work together. It is a rapidly emerging shift in the practice of high-quality health care. Integrated behavioral health care may address the following:
- Health behaviors and lifestyle changes (including their contribution to chronic medical illnesses)
- Mental health and substance abuse conditions
- Life stressors and crises
- Stress-related physical symptoms
- Ineffective patterns of health care utilization
Frequently, physical and mental health issues occur together. For example, people with diabetes or cardiac conditions often develop depression as well. Providers practicing integrated behavioral health care recognize that both medical and behavioral health factors are important parts of a person’s overall health. Medical and behavioral health clinicians collaborate with each other, patients, and families to address health concerns identified during medical visits. The advantage is better coordination and communication while working towards overall health goals.
Receiving both behavioral health and primary care treatment in one integrated setting can help people continue to work, attend school, engage with their families, participate in their communities, and be able to thrive. Ultimately, the goal of behavioral health interventions are similar to those of other primary care treatment – helping people function so they can lead healthier, fuller lives.
Conditions Treated
Tri-State Clearwater Medical Behavioral Health may be used to help with the following:
- Clarify a problem (assess and evaluate complex situations)
- Adjust to illness or health concern
- Develop an action plan (identify steps to resolve a situation)
- Handle a crisis
- Sort through a patient’s options
- Resolve complex issues with a focused, extended treatment process
Services Offered
Services offered, but not limited to:
- Counseling/Psychotherapy, Individual Services (for patients 16 years and older)
- Specialized Programs (please contact us for more information)
What Happens During a Behavioral Health Appointment?
The first appointment involves an intake assessment. This appointment is the time for you to explain your problem, concern, or issue. You may be asked about the history of this problem, significant others in your life, and other lifestyle components to determine and clarify how the therapist may help you and to determine treatment needs. Consider your therapist as a resource. After this assessment process, an individualized treatment plan is developed establishing goals for treatment and strategies and interventions to achieve them.
Behavioral Health appointments generally are approximately 45-55 minute sessions. The counseling office is designed to be comfortable and quiet, to offer a safe and relaxed environment. You and your therapist will determine the frequency of these sessions, which may be weekly, every two weeks, etc., based on your individual treatment needs, progress, and goals. All services are provided in strict confidence. The personal information that you share with your therapist is confidential and not shared outside the program unless you sign a release of information or if law requires disclosure.
In counseling sessions, a variety of evidence-based therapy practices are used to meet the client’s needs and build upon their strengths. Individual counseling offers you a chance to express thoughts, feelings, and concerns, and will provide you the opportunity to better understand your behavior and situation and learn new ways to approach and solve problems. We do our best to provide an accurate and fair assessment that will help guide our treatment planning.
The psychiatric services are focused on taking a holistic approach with an emphasis on obtaining accurate diagnoses through a thorough history evaluation. Specific services focus on diagnosis, treatment planning, as well as psychopharmacological medication management. Tri-State Behavioral Health provides brief psychotherapy and medication management evaluations that focus on improving the patient’s overall well-being through coping skills, the use of mindfulness strategies, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing.
Insurance & Payments
Please contact your insurance carrier to determine your coverage for behavioral health/mental health services. Behavioral health coverage and prior authorization requirements vary by health plan. Many times there is a limit as to how many visits are allowed per year; please discuss any concerns about this with your therapist. A request for extended services can be filed to allow for more sessions to complete your goals of therapy. Co-payments are due at the time of service. No more than a $500 balance can be carried for services provided.
Confidentiality & Medical Records
Providing a safe environment is important to the therapeutic work that we do. Part of that safe environment is confidentiality. Everything we discuss is confidential, except matters pertaining to (1) intention of self-harm and/or harm to another person, (2) physical/sexual abuse or neglect of minors, persons with disabilities, and the elderly, (3) legal activity resulting in court order, and (4) to anything else required by law. For those matters, legally and ethically confidentiality would be broken. Of course, we would be willing to share information with any other professional or agency that you wish provided that you sign a Release of Information form. We abide by the professional code of ethics and adhere to the U.S. and State of Idaho statutes. Health information sharing is an important part of delivering quality health care to individuals. However, your behavioral health record is protected information and will only be shared with your permission by signing a Release of Information form.
Lewiston-Clarkston Crisis Hotline: 1-800-669-3176
National Suicide Hotline: 1-800-273-8255
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