Welcome to Mental Health First LLC
At Mental Health First LLC, we provide compassionate mental health care, guiding you toward healing, balance, and lasting emotional well-being.
Our mission at Mental Health First is to provide recovery-based care to promote individual wellness. We offer compassionate treatment plans for mental health issues in an environment that is free of stigma. Our approach blends care with empathy to create a safe, supportive space for growth.
If you are struggling with anxiety, stress, or just feeling off, call us. Don’t face your problems alone. In our practice, we provide personalized care that is designed to fit into your life in a space where you are truly heard. We offer therapeutic support, medication management, and telehealth services for teens and adults. Together, we can create a personalized plan to guide you toward healing, balance, and lasting well-being. Take the first step today, you deserve to feel your best.
Anxiety causes excessive worry, fear, and physical symptoms. Managing anxiety often combines therapeutic support and medication to reduce distress and improve emotional well-being and daily life functioning.
Depression presents as persistent sadness, low energy, and loss of interest. Treatment involves therapeutic support and medication to restore mood balance, motivation, and overall quality of life.
OCD features intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviors. Effective treatment uses cognitive-behavioral therapeutic support and medication to reduce symptoms and improve coping.
Medication management ensures safe and effective use of psychiatric drugs by monitoring effects, adjusting doses, and minimizing side effects to support mental health recovery and symptom control.
Mood disorders include bipolar disorder and related conditions characterized by mood swings. Treatment targets mood stabilization through therapeutic support and medication to improve emotional regulation and daily functioning.
Our psychological services include evaluations for Anxiety, Depression, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Personality Disorders, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
We manage the emotional needs of patients who struggle with coping after surgery.
We promote living your best life and can guide you in continuing to experience the fullness of life after the creation of your Ostomy
Life does not have to stop just because you have an ostomy
Let us help!
We offer psychosocial support to ostomy clients by providing individual treatment plans to ease the stress encountered by the creation of a colostomy, ileostomy, urostomy, continent diversion, and pelvic exenteration (which is the placement of two stomas on one’s abdomen).
We work with clients who struggle with coping prior to and after surgery. We realize recovery can be challenging, especially since clients may be experiencing both physical and emotional strain.
We offer strategies for coping with complicated fistula care and recommendations for management.
This is identified as a refusal to maintain normal body weight by restricting caloric intake as a result of the fear of gaining weight.
This is characterized by recurrent binge-eating episodes combined with inappropriate ways to prevent weight gain, including vomiting, laxatives, fasting, and excessive exercise. Patients may experience normal or may be slightly overweight.
This is defined as recurrent episodes of binge eating with lack of control. This typically occurs at least 2 days weekly for 6 months and is not associated with compensatory behaviors.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy helps clients by replacing negative thoughts with balanced and realistic ones.
Family therapy focuses on improving is used to treat specific mental health disorders including autism, schizophrenia, and some personality disorder. This form of therapy includes the family in important decision making about the client’s care.
This is the integration of mindfulness, meditation, and cognitive behavioral therapy aimed to improve mental and physical health by increasing awareness to present circumstances.
One-on-one conversations that explore feelings, thoughts, and experiences to promote self-awareness, healing, and improved mental and emotional health.
Start improving your mental health today. Mental Health First is here to support you.
Ed.D., RN, APN, CWOCN
Colette graduated with a doctorate in Nursing Leadership and Organization from Teachers College Columbia University in 2013. She is a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner and a Certified Wound Ostomy Continence Nurse with over fifteen years of experience in Wound Ostomy Continence Nursing. Colette has extensive experience in the field of behavioral health. She has developed coping strategies for assisting all clients including those with ostomy diversions, surgery, and fistula complications. She has also developed programs for eating disorders, including Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia. Whether it’s dealing with anxiety, ADHD, depression, PTSD, OCD, or Bipolar Disorder, she has made a difference. She has helped clients manage stress in their day-to-day activities with great outcomes. Her treatment plans incorporate natural remedies, behavioral therapies, and medication management aimed at enhancing the well-being of clients. This approach emphasizes a comprehensive set of resources that focus on solutions, not problems, to create positive and lasting change.
Our clients share inspiring stories of healing and growth through our compassionate, personalized mental health care.
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Mental Health First LLC provides compassionate, recovery-based mental health care through therapy, medication management, and telehealth services for teens and adults in New Jersey and New York.
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